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Azimio la Umoja, Kenya Kwanza blueprints need a dose of reality

Deputy President William Ruto chats with his competitor and ODM leader Raila Odinga during the State Funeral of former President Mwai Kibaki. [Standard]

“We must fix this country; fix its systems; fix its politics then fix its economy,” declared former PM Raila Odinga in Nakuru in August last year as he launched the Azimio la Umoja caravan.

Deputy President William Ruto’s idea of fixing things and getting the economy working is through the now famous bottom-up economic model. Finally, the political class has come down to the level of the people that matter.

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