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Why Kenyans cannot wait for midnight to say goodbye to 2019 at midnight

Holidaymakers dance at Mombasa’s Travellers Beach Hotel on Christmas eve. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

For millions of Kenyans, 2019 is yet another year they cannot wait to usher out. This was the year that no less a person than President Uhuru Kenyatta wondered aloud why Kenyans were broke. The president’s dilemma captured the reality of millions of Kenyans struggling to survive on empty pockets in the face of daily reports of wastage and theft in the execution of multi-billion-shillings development projects. 

This is the year in which concerns about the country’s debt dominated public discourse, as did corruption perpetuated by cartels both in the public and private sectors.

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