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Why we should not celebrate renewed Raila, Ruto friendship

President William Ruto and Azimio leader Raila Odinga at Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's farm in Kisozi, Uganda, in February 2024. [PCS]

A French general and statesman, Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, who led the French forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and later chaired the provisional government of the French Republic in 1944-1946, once quipped: "Politics is too serious a matter to be left to politicians".

This quote resonates perfectly in Kenya's political environment in which two constants, namely, interests and betrayals - have permeated post-independence politics.

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