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The good, bad and ugly of colourful Jamhuri Day fete

The military band clad in neat ceremonial regalia, stood in straight lines, their shoes gleaming, their hands by their sides and their serious eyes focused on the man of the day. Their Commander-in-Chief, President Uhuru Kenyatta.

But nothing could have prepared the disciplined military men for what happened next—not even the hours they had spent in drills for the D-Day, drills which were supposed to guarantee perfect execution with, well, military precision.

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