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Just how did we end up with these hoodlums for leaders?

We lost it somewhere, I don’t know where. But the ugly orgy of violence in City Hall, Nairobi, this week confirms that we lost it. Or, maybe, we never had it in the first place, so we didn’t even lose it? You cannot lose what you never had?

Maybe Kenya has just never had leaders and leadership? For, how do you explain the lowly spectacles that play out in our county assemblies every so often? This time it was Nairobi, the place where the country is ruled from.

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