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Why our beloved country is yet to attain its potential

Agriculture CS Mithika Linturi when he flagged off five module grain driers 70,000 bags of fertiliser at the NCPB depot in Nakuru County on January 31, 2024. Photo: [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

A few years ago, I sat in a class where the lecturer was so confident that we were all going to pass in her unit and that if anything, we could only work very hard to fail.

It sounded unusual, but for sure, it was one of those few courses where beside beautiful delivery in class you were also allowed to have all the books you needed in an exam room. So you actually failed if you wanted to.

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