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Opposition should be ‘killed’ after every poll

Today, I should explain why opposition politics is a bloodsucker in Kenya. The 2018 handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga ended a looming conflict that threatened Kenya’s destiny. So Uhuru got clever; he captured the opposition captain, and the rest was peace, opening up of businesses and return of normalcy. That’s how opposition politics should be killed in Kenya after elections. 

Nillennials have no pulse for opposition politics — we’ve grown with it, we know what it is and what it’s not. I won’t shun public intellectualism that fuses opposition politics with Raila. What I know is that if you capture Raila, you have captured opposition and all its debris of over six million voters and their relations. 

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