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For Ruto, there are no two ways: Fight or flee

“A dance,” goes a Kalenjin saying “should be stopped when it is still enjoyable”. The more the dance proceeds the more it gets tiring, rough, irritating and chaotic. Enjoyable moments, beyond certain point would easily turn nasty or tragic for the dancing party. This point seems to be drawing nigh for the Jubilee Party. The political landscape is getting muddy, murky, slippery and hazy for the open ambitions of Deputy President William.

The wisdom of the Psalmist in the book of Ecclesiastes rings true and just at times like this. “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the Heaven. A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away. What profit has he who works in that wherein he labours?” For his troubles the legendary jazz singer from Zimbabwe the late Oliver Mtukudzi definitely pose “What shall we do”?

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