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Let’s face head-on what ails nation and stalls growth

If a nation can be compared to a human being, Kenya is only now reaching adolescence, the age where a child develops into an adult.

Kenya’s parturition was a tumultuous event. The Republic of Kenya was birthed after a traumatic gestation period which saw our people throw-off colonial’s oppressive rule. Midwifed by those who paid great sacrifices for the nation, leaders tried to invest the people with a sense of freedom and democracy even though those who created the republican system and laws had themselves never breathed either in their lives.

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