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Siaya County Governor James Orengo when he appeared before the Cohesion and Equal Opportunities at Bunge Towers, Nairobi. [File, Standard]
As Christian all over the world gather in places of worship to reflect on the persecution, death and ascension of Christ, may we collectively as Kenyans take time to reflect on what must be our irreducible minimum in the next elections. Truth is, the folks who took over the reins of power after President Moi, have proven that modernity is certainly not synonymous with development. The political economy they have engendered might look modern but undeveloped.
Access to education continues to be a pipe-dream. The human rights record has plummeted to an all time low. Public anxiety around joblessness is at its peak while the political class continues to trade asinine barbs as though public leadership is some child's play. If this is waht they think, I will remind them of Aesop's wisdom in his fable the 'Frog and the village boys', where he says that what might be play to a pack of boys may mean death to a family of frogs.
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