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Mr President, keep the promise to our youth

Youth euphoria ahead of William Ruto's campaign rally in Migori Town, Migori County, on November 11, 2021. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]

When the 2013 UhuRuto government came to power, my son who was eleven years old then, was so excited that he asked his mother to buy him a portrait of President Uhuru Kenyatta to hang in his room.

The young man was thrilled by the 'adult-talk' to the effect that these two (Uhuru and William Ruto), were a dynamic duo, a two-some that would change the course of our country by uniting it and burying the greed and tribalism that had afflicted our nation since independence.

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