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Opinion: Secession threat sign of growing despair

Deputy President William Ruto Photo:Courtesy

Kenyans reacted with mixed feelings about the recent intellectual discourse on whether the country should split through secession or not. As weird and reckless as this separatism idea-- which by the way is not new in Kenya-- may have appeared to some, it however spoke volumes about the rising despair in the country which is a ticking time bomb that we need to confront before it ultimately explodes.

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