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ONLY LOVE CAN REBOOT US

When Kenya Shujaa sevens rugby team won the Singapore Sevens cup on Sunday, April 17, 2016, we celebrated as a nation. Everyone was talking about it and congratulating them on social media. When Kenya athletes broke records at the Limassol marathon on Sunday, March 19 we again celebrated as a nation. We were all proud of their victory. We called them Kenyans without caring/naming what tribe or what part of the country they came from. Where does this love go during an election year?



The “msimu wa siasa” is here and you can barely walk a meter without seeing the face of a Kenyan citizen in a poster asking for your votes. Are they worth our votes? We live in a country where the political class has made us political tribal puppets for their own selfish political gains.

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