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Mediocrity and shortcuts are gradually killing our country

The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams kicked off this week with the rather predictable reports of con men hawking what they purported to be genuine exam papers. And even as we condemn the profiteers for their shady sense of enterprise, we need to lay the blame where it lies.

Ladies and gentlemen, let us all stand up and welcome Kenya, a country slowly getting inured to the culture of mediocrity and short-cuts.

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