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Ruto's challenge is how to stay national

Deputy President William Ruto in Isiolo on February 12, 2021. [DPPS]

In the next 18 months, Kenya will experience political heat as leaders jostle for positions, change alliances, make false promises, invent new insults, and still expect voters to believe them.

They will entertain, excel in undercutting each other, and keep Samuel Kobia’s National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) busy. Since Kenyan elections are rarely just domestic, ‘donors’ will pump in resources to their favourite candidates, especially at the presidential level.

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