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Why it's dishonest to blow Ruto slap remarks out of proportion

By Barrack Muluka | 3yrs ago
Deputy President and Kenya Kwanza Presidential Candidate William Ruto during a Townhall meeting. [Samson Wire, Standard]

An orphan boy in Charles Dickens’ 1838 novel, Oliver Twist, says he will eat the boy who sleeps next to him.

Dickens uses literary hyperbole to bring home the message of starvation among a bunch of boys in an abusive orphanage.

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