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Succession politics fuelling 'one man, one shilling' calls

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is a proponent of the one-man one-vote one-shilling revenue formula. [PCS]

The 'one man, one shilling, one vote' campaign has seen a dramatic escalation recently. Couched as a metric of equitable public resource distribution, it has gained currency in a section of the country's leadership.

But the campaign is repudiated by its ethnic underpinnings with jingoists demanding a greater share of the national cake for their people.

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