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Let’s ask ourselves what we all stand for

Are you a Kenyan politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for the country? If you are the first, you are a parasite; if the second, you are an oasis in a desert.

Are you a merchant utilising the need of society for the necessities of life, for monopoly and exorbitant profit? Or a sincere, hard-working and diligent man facilitating exchange between the weaver and the farmer? Are you charging a reasonable profit as a middleman between the supply and demand?

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