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Here is why the Opposition will not want polls this year

Once upon a time, there was a country called Kenya. The people of the African nation, like any other country that minds its own business, went about life as usual - trading, reproducing, dying, working, stealing, praying, eating, starving, celebrating, begging and complaining on the Internet. Just doing life.

The country kept up its uninterrupted existence for a good three years. On the fourth year, the country, including the government, slipped into a prolonged day dream. The only ones who were wide awake, were the opposition. They were tiptoeing around quietly, careful not to wake the ones in slumber. But at the eleventh hour they went off like loud human alarm clocks shouting; WAKE UP! Elections are upon us!

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