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Ruto's belittling of Opposition taking Kenya towards anarchy

President William Ruto.[File Standard]

Sometimes, power is louder than its intended purpose. At such times, social science wants to borrow metaphors from pure science to speak of social and political entropy. Kenya, under the UDA regime, tempts you with that kind of borrowing.  

Nearly 16 years after the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya (2010), systems are steadily moving from the order and respect for institutions towards randomness and volatility. This is entropy, a drift from stability towards chaotic randomness. Does this seem like a deliberate policy thrust by the Ruto government? Destabilise everything, reap from the chaos?

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