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A Catholic faithful on the cross during Good Friday Way of the Cross procession in Nairobi on March 3, 2026. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]
Across our country, a pattern is playing out. People are working harder, yet feeling poorer. Prices rise faster than incomes. Each season brings new policy announcements, task forces, and reform agendas.
Yet for many citizens, daily life remains a negotiation with uncertainty rather than a pathway to progress. We have become adept at explaining our problems. We analyse, diagnose, and debate them endlessly. But explanation is not the same as resolution. The distance between what is said and what is experienced remains wide.
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