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For more than one week, blogger Ndiang'ui Kinyagia made Kenyans incessantly bark up the wrong tree. And even when the Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin said he did not know the whereabouts of Mr Ndiang'ui, nobody believed him.
This offers a lesson on the ramifications of perception; that once embedded, it is difficult to turn it around. Amid executive nonchalance and silence when things started going south, Kenya Kwanza acquired the reputation of an ogre, a blood sucking leech. So, when anyone shouts 'thief!', the image the minds of Kenyans conjure up is that of Kenya Kwanza.
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