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For roughly 10 seconds that President William Ruto held up the ceremonial inauguration sword, he took time to bask in the adulation of the 60,000-strong and rapt crowd.
The Kasarani Stadium "skies" simultaneously opened up, giving way to confetti showers as Ruto's face lit up with a beaming smile, momentarily negating all troubles that had gone into making yesterday a reality.
This was a culmination of 30 years. It was a climax for a journey that had started with a greenhorn political activist, who was now holding the symbolic sword, declaring to the world that he is now the Commander-in-Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF). Just four months shy of his 55th birthday, the village boy is now the fifth President of Kenya.
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