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As a rule of thumb, leaders with ambition need formidable allies

The coronavirus has temporarily come to the rescue of the Deputy President. It looks like the pandemic has postponed at least one problem; the impeachment process. Coincidentally, the two-week period that James Orengo promised is the same as the incubation of the coronavirus virus. If we didn’t know better, we would think that coronavirus was organised!

But like all contagions that have preceded it, the coronavirus too shall pass. And once again, life will go on, public gatherings will be reinstated, the shadowy people of ‘the system’ will gather again to scheme, and the ‘BBI reggae’ will resume.  

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