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Is Kenya ripe for secession as per Kaluma Bill handed to electoral agency?

Peter Kaluma (Photo: Courtesy)

If you look at the Peter Kaluma Bill  that seeks to carve out 40 of the existing 47 counties from the People’s Republic of Kenya, then you will get the true picture of why secession is inevitable. The 40 counties that want to walk out are in fact among the poorest in the nation save for Nairobi.

The others are mysteriously rich. Their poverty has been a historic pain of paying taxes in exchange for injustices, marginalisation and inequalities in distribution of national resources.

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