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Kenyans must question more than clap when leaders issue directives

President Willliam Ruto addresses the nation at State House, Nairobi. [PCS]

Kenya is an embarrassing clapping nation. Our propensity to clap speaks of an abused people who will apologise for those who abuse them.

Derogation of the people's natural rights over the years has reduced citizens to uncritical riffraff that claps at just about anything, even nothing. They laugh when they should cry.

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