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Stop feeding Kenyans with campaign trail rhetoric, lies yet they need food

President William Ruto when he flagged off trucks of relief food in Kajiado. [PCS]

There is so much excitement in Kenya today even as people in more than 25 counties are losing their animals to drought and cannot feed their families.

In the midst of all that, the president and the deputy have been busy feeding Kenyans with tall tales and invoking their religion like preachers while flagging off relief food, a custom that Kenyan leaders have perfected for decades.

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