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Most Kenyans see and hear no evil

Sitting in traffic last week, a deep sense of pity ran through my mind.
I guess many of us lucky to have drivers hardly give thought to what is happening outside our car windows. I was running late for an appointment and we seemed stuck at the same spot for so long. Usually, I wouldn’t notice.

Suddenly, there was a blare of sirens and across the road was a motorcade of close to 10 vehicles driving against oncoming traffic at high speed. “Huyo ni nani?” I asked the driver. “Ni Kidero,” he said without a thought.

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