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Why our sugar tales lack any sweetness

Lugari MP Ayub Savula (left) and his Matungu counterpart Justus Murunga addressing journalists in Kisumu. [Denish Ochieng/Standard]

The going price for your life, health and safety has just been set at the sum of Sh10,000. Our Parliament has decided that what’s required to sell all of us and betray the soul of our country of 44 million people is a sum less than what Judas received to betray Jesus.

We are worth less than a pigeon per person to our MPs per capita, we are worth Sh0.000227. That is all it takes to betray a Kenyan. Judas betrayed Jesus for between Sh60,000 to 360,000 (factored at current exchange rates) than most of our MP’s, no wonder we feel like our country is going to hell.

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