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Why bhang activist now wants Luo dialect to be official language

A renowned researcher Mr Sammy Gwada Ogot has filed a petition at the National Assembly seeking to have Luo dialect elevated to Kenya’s official language.

He submitted the appeal to parliament last week arguing that the Luo dialect “has an inbuilt capacity to generate, record, translate, instruct and transmit knowledge in a scientific manner.”

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