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Political shareholding has a minority too

Former President Kibaki sold to us the phrase, ‘every marketplace has its mad man’. He was then a VP under siege. We were in high school dining hall watching television news on the gigantic black-and-white wooden sets.

He would later be dispatched to Ministry of Health, but not before accusing his tormentors led by the late Elijah Wasike Mwangale of engaging in ‘political tourism’.

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