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We are serving our leaders instead of them serving us

There was once a time under the colonial rule Kenyans were all servants of the system. With time we got fed up of the system and fought for our independence hoping that it will usher in a future of equality, prosperity and mutual respect for each other as brothers, sisters and citizens.

We celebrated independence with so much hope for the future but little did we know that those people we were going to put in power would employ the same tactics of stealing and looting public resources, land grabbing and assassinating those who opposed their rule. This was against the very people who fought and died for them to be in that position of power.

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