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Stop incriminating Senator Ole Kina, he's just a victim of Kenya's hypocrisy

On Wednesday this week, I keenly followed the controversial debate on one of the local TV stations pitting two senators, Narok's Ledama Ole Kina and his Kericho counterpart Aaron Cheruiyot. The debate revolved around the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) and the plight of Maasai community ahead of the Narok BBI forum. Cheruiyot, conspicuously an anti-BBI crusader, was hell-bent on portraying the BBI as divisive at all cost. On the contrary, Ole Kina distinguished himself as an ardent supporter of the BBI and saw the initiative as what the doctor asked for in articulation of the predicaments of the Maa community.

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