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Uhuru just threw us from the pan right into the fire

President Uhuru Kenyatta while addressing the nation from State House, Nairobi.

Pressured to increase tax for the reconstruction of the country after the second world war, UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill said, “I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

He went on to say: “Nor can we borrow and bomb our way to prosperity.”

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