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Why Kenyans and dishonesty are siblings with deep bonds

You could argue otherwise, but then you’d be irreversibly wrong, that we Kenyans have talents that we have devotedly nurtured-dishonesty, deceit, corruption and nonchalance. Yes, every single one of us wants more than he deserves so much that if a tout returns a passengers money left behind, we cringe at his honesty. It is so rare an act that he will make headlines and even surpass views of a leaked nude video.

By the time a child is high school, he begins dreaming up ways of skimming the parent. Those whose parents were ‘fortunate’ enough no to step into a classroom will get messages such as ‘we are required to purchase three mitochondria for our biology practical’ and the parent will feel obliged to sell the one and only emaciated cow so his child can have uninterrupted interaction with this marvel he knows very little about. Better yet, ghost trips will be conjured up, which, I suppose, will include the moon by the time millenial’s kids have kids.

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