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"We should frown at defectors and the so-called independents," railed top Nairobi lawyer Donald Kipkorir last week. "Without being loyal to parties and ideology, we can't be loyal to anything. You can't join a party and be given life membership then switch (sic)."
"Independents are nothing but opportunists," he concluded.
In many ways, Mr Kipkorir was expressing what is wrong with our politics, much so our democracy: The absence of ideology and principled loyalty is the bane of our politics. In fact I wonder what will happen in August if what we saw was anything to go by.
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