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If you want a healthy long life, marry a smart woman

When Kenya’s history is written, 2017 will be quite the year full of interesting twists and turns, all culminating in the election in August. One issue bound to get a lot of airplay will be issue of grades - starting with the Matiang’i As to the Joho D-s. Most of us are fast learning that majority of elected officials are really not that smart based on the real and fake Ds floating around.

It seems that we have decided that intelligence is not an important criteria when it comes to electing our leaders. It seems that intelligence is downplayed or underrated in this country because we like to place serious responsibility in the hands of daft people.

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