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Tanui: What made Ruto could be what breaks him

Today, allow me to address Deputy President William Ruto. I will aspire to be respectful and courteous, but I will also balance this with strong opinions that he needs to hear, if he hasn’t.

I take cognisance of two issues here; first, politians don’t like what they ought to hear, instead, they extol sycophancy, especially by those who have a personal stake in their upward movement. That is why when a politician is falling, he has fewer and fewer friends, at other times, smiling people jam their home, office and even the gyms they visit.

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