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Opinion: Let’s give Sonko a chance at redemption to earn our trust

Governor Mike Sonko

No one can accuse the good people of Nairobi of being “village idiots.” That’s not to say their choice of elected leaders is particularly enlightened.

In fact, Nairobians have often elected knuckleheads, thugs, Mafiosi, and illiterates. That, I am told, is democracy, which Winston Churchill called the worst system of government, except for all the others.

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