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Johnson Sakaja clearly steamrolled Polycarp Igathe during their debate

Nairobi gubernatorial candidates Johnson Sakaja and Polycarp Igathe during their debate at CUEA on July 11, 2022. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The recent Igathe-Sakaja Nairobi gubernatorial debate speaks to the politics of patronage and entitlement.

Pitting a technocrat against a politician, it was a veritable steamrolling with Polycarp Igathe looking, for the most part, like a deer stuck in the headlights of an oncoming juggernaut.

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