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Lessons Ruto should learn from the book of Kings

The story of his excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto can be likened to a story in the bible found in 2 Kings. For those who have not heard the story, here it is.

"So it happened after this that Ben-Hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. 25And there was a great famine in Samaria, and indeed they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a [a]kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.

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