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How Ruto should engage with the young and restless

Present William Ruto in Bungoma County where he warned his critics that he will not allow to be blackmailed and intimidated and vowed not to be blackmailed to abandon fulfilling his development manifesto he pledged to Kenyans. [Juliet Omelo, Standard]

The fable of the wind and the sun teaches us something important about how the Kwanza Kenya government should deal with young people, if not all Kenyans. As the fable goes, the two entities challenged each other on which is stronger and found a perfect testing ground on a man wearing his jacket.

The wind, confident in its brute force, tried to force a man out of his jacket by blowing and howling very hard. But the harder it blew, the tighter the man held onto his jacket-quite expectedly.

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