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Worry not about 2022, there is much bigger menace stalking us

Power tussles in readiness for the 2022 Kenyatta succession bring to mind Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy’s opine: “In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, craftiness and cruelty”.

An amalgam of pride, craftiness and cruelty has been evident, but we are yet to see the reality of it in the 2022 countdown. The first casualty of these machinations is Chapter Six of the Constitution (Integrity) that appears to have been quietly expunged by the political class.

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