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Former President Uhuru Kenyatta (C) President William Ruto (L) and Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga during the launch of Building Bridges Initiative report at Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi on November 27, 2019. [File, Standard]
We have come full circle. In 2022, President William Ruto ran a scorched earth electoral campaign against "dynasties" - portrayed to us as candidate Raila Odinga and incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta.
He has returned to these dynasties in 2024 to salvage his "hustler" presidency and "bottom-up" administration in the name of "broad-based government".
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