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One of the most spectacular and unfortunate rituals of hypocrisy went down on Saturday. Puffed up by torrent of encouraging media reports, positive slogans from NGO’s and cheered on by a bevy of celebrities, President Uhuru Kenyatta set fire to 105 tons of ivory seized off poachers. Hivyo tu!
His predecessors - Jomo Kenyatta, his father, excluded - engaged in similar rituals in a symbolic protest at commercial trade in ivory and in anti-poaching gesture. Former President Daniel arap Moi did it twice in 1989 and 1991 while his successor Mwai Kibaki walked in his footsteps and burnt the ivory in 2011.
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