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Nasa Strategy Committee members Koitamet Ole (left) Oduor Ong'wen (centre) and David Ndii addressing the press at Okoa Kenya Secretariat on 4/1/17. [Beverlyne Musili, Standard]
The overarching bases for any disaffiliation of a group from its nationality should be the promise of better social economic lives of the separatists. That promise should be demonstrated beyond doubts that the radical decision victims are led to make does not jeopardize them further.
Kenya, as a nation, has under the constitution, legitimate interest in its citizens economic and social rights. It would not, therefore, tolerate its people being influenced out of their livelihoods to worse standards of life. In this connection, it is paramount that the Kenyan populace appreciate the import of secession as a proposed means of liberation the opposition is crusading for. Currently the only ground opposition has proponed is the perceived electoral injustice.
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