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We cannot rely on voters to clean up our politics

Voters queueing at the KICC polling station on August 9, 2022. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

As election results for the various elective positions continue to trickle in, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i's warning that Kenyans might end up "laundering criminals of unprecedented standards into our elective offices" is ringing true.

This is because some of the candidates who have been declared winners so far and some of those cruising to victory as vote counting continues, are people who should be nowhere near public offices. Indeed, some of them belong in jail.

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