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Opinion: It's time to stand up and rescue the soul of the nation

Public Service CS Sicily Kariuki celebrates with National Youth Service graduates at the GIlgil college

Several events this past week have served to expose the darker side of our soul as a nation.

The reported theft of over Sh9 billion from the National Youth Service (NYS), the alleged theft of a dead man’s heart by a medical doctor, and the unwarranted death of tens of Kenyans in the Solai dam tragedy, are but among the many issues that have shown us for who we are – a desperately wicked people.

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