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Even new dispensation could not kill the old colonial system

A Chinese contractor blocks Mombasa Deputy County Commissioner Charles Monari, journalists and other government officials from leaving a project site in Likoni on August 12. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

A recent highly circulated video showing a deputy county commissioner (DCC) in Mombasa being held hostage at the gate of a Chinese construction company site by a supervisor until he has had enough and shoves him aside, drove many Kenyans to the nostalgia of the pre-2010 Constitution days.

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