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The Fever That is The General Election.


The political temperature in Kenya is rising with only nine months to the general elections. Well look at that nine months. It’s not that far but the political scene is in mayhem. Political parties are parading around the country campaigning vigorously. Politicians are defecting camps and with this insults are being thrown at each other, talk about insecurities, others are threatening to declare sits of defectors vacant and conduct by elections. Well this is Kenya for you.

And it begins; remember when there was a mega bash in the coastal part of the country and a grand merger at the capital? One party was celebrating ten years of being in the political arena and the other was celebrating the birth of a new grand party. This is where it got warm.

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