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Churches are now a politician's playground

President William Ruto, is joined AIPCA Presiding Archbishop and Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja during the Holy Oil Celebrations of the Church at, Makadara, Nairobi. [File, PCS]

Being a Sunday, I shall touch on something religious. I was driving from Nakuru to Ol Kalou – 30km at most - and as a passenger, I decided to count the number of churches along the way.

That stretch had 26 church billboards. The ones I managed to count. That’s a lot of churches. At the same time, I counted four schools. And not a single public hospital. Not anywhere on the road. 

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