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Ours is, truly, a problem of leadership

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I was intrigued when one of the leading lights of our political landscape told a gathering that they will do anything in their power to wrest the leadership of Nairobi county from the Opposition.

This got me thinking about the Machiavellian mantra about crushing your enemy completely and wondered whether our leader's political strategy is still enmeshed in the antediluvian thinking of the original thinking of Machiavelli.

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