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Why Kenya’s will always be a middle class economy with 3rd-world-country problems

You have hard such big words and statements as Transformation Agenda that often keep popping up in with hash tags such as #TransformingKE / #TransformationKe whenever the government is confronted with matters of governance or the fight against corruption, security or lack of them. And the, most powerful President alive bolstered the chorus recently when he announced to the world ‘Kenya is ready for takeoff.’

Allow the cane cutter to play the devil’s advocate, I may not please you but these are matters of facts. To me it’s a case of the more things change the more they remain the same sort of the French saying.

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