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Why Kenya's politics favours turncoats

When Azimio MPs walked out of the chambers as then CS Treasury Njuguna Ndungu read the Budget Highlights for the 23/24 financial year on June 15, 2023. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The recent move by President William Ruto to close ranks with his erstwhile political rival and Opposition leader Raila Odinga to form a Government of National Unity has exposed the soft underbelly of Kenyan politics that favours political fence-sitting.

Politicians know that they have to swallow their words shamelessly and do what they swore never to do for survival.

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