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Ask Raila Odinga, William Ruto hard questions to avoid refined rubbish in future

ODM leader Raila Odinga and UDA leader William Ruto. [File, Standard]

Kenya could be headed for a no-issue presidential election on August 9. Embittered raw emotions, half-truths, fear-peddling, purposeful forgetfulness and elided historical glosses, seem to be the only significant items to help voters choose.

The ongoing barnstorming across the country by Azimio la Umoja and Kenya Kwanza formations is disappointing for its absence of issues. In this age of ubiquitous television and online citizen journalism, the vacuous dramatic scripts, lewd dances and salacious off-colour jokes, empty verbiage and defamatory depredations, are repetitively boring and predictable.

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