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This is the moment for Kenya to reinvent itself

President Uhuru Kenyatta goes through the BBI report at State House, Nairobi. [PSCU, Standard]

For far too long Kenya has been built on constitutional moments and political winds. In 1992, we thought multi-party democracy would cure all our ills. We changed a line in our constitution, but that change failed to change us. For both leaders and the citizenry nothing much changed.

Tribalism and corruption remained. Multi-partyism gave birth to multiple briefcase parties which are picked and dropped like political clothes that our politicians don every five years.

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