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It's no longer tenable to sit by and watch

Pick a problem, any problem which Kenya is grappling with Thursday, and you will find that the biggest obstacle to overcoming it, is most unfortunately, the Kenyan people.

Whereas much is accurately said of Kenya's often poor leadership, at the core of our continued underdevelopment is the people themselves; tribal, corrupt, ambivalent, individualistic, oblivious that poverty and inequality are no natural phenomena.

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