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Of illicit drinks, men and lost votes

By KIPKOECH TANUI

Let us begin with a little story told to me last year on the flipside of alcoholism among youths in Central Kenya by a deputy governor. I won’t name him because he saw in this problem a big threat to Jubilee’s so-called tyranny of numbers given the way the cheap liquor has stunted population in his region. 

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