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Why politicians love rowdy crowds

President Uhuru Kenyatta during a past event. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

A politician’s job is to talk. His greatest happiness is when he finds an audience, preferably a big and even rowdy crowd, if the rowdiness is in agreement with him. To tell a politician not to talk for a day is like telling a hunter not to hunt, or a farmer not to go to his shamba, or check on his livestock. It is like telling a fisherman not to go fishing.

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