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Failed leadership is taking us backwards

By now, poachers must be a panicked lot; they are so frightened they will leave our jumbos and rhinos alone. That is what the Government wants us to believe after the setting ablaze of over 100 tonnes of ivory by President Uhuru Kenyatta recently.

But I have news for you; if you believe that flapdoodle, you must be new in Africa. It is not the first time ivory is being burnt to send a message the postman doesn’t deliver, and certainly not the last.

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