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The hogwash often pawned as ‘New Year resolutions’ does not wash with me. Not that I have not tried cobbling one before. It is only that over the years, I have come to appreciate the power of destiny. Things happen in ways we cannot explain.
That notwithstanding, there are many things I wish could happen this year. To begin with, though politics is the fulcrum on which all other aspects of life revolve, too much time was expended on it by elected leaders in 2019 to the detriment of development. And to prove we were on auto pilot, inflation took a leap from 4.69 per cent in 2018 to 5.82 per cent in December 2019, notwithstanding Jubilee’s hollow promise our economy would grow by double digits.
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