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Rising crimes call for urgent repair of our social fabric

Ken Opalo, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University. [File, Standard]

Kenya’s social fabric is in tatters. Whether it is the police casually murdering young men, cases of lynching, mysterious disappearances, or the rise of child kidnappings and defilement, we are continuously inundated with signs of a generalised breakdown of social cohesion.

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