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Modest proposal on the type of leader Kenya should have

President Uhuru Kenyatta at Wagai in Siaya County on May 30, 2021. (Collins Oduor, Standard)

With the 2022 elections drawing closer, I thought I should switch gears from focusing on the present and the past to offering unsolicited advice – my thoughts—in a forward-looking treatise.

You see, I consider Kenya a huge conglomerate with five-year cycle of Annual General Meetings. The electorate are the shareholders and though the politicians and the ruling elite - including the bureaucracy- assume that they have more stakes than everyone else, the truth is we are all equal.

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