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Deputy President William Ruto (left) and Interior CS Fred Matiang'i during the launch of the new education curriculum at KICC [Beverlyne Musili, Standard]

Kizaazaa is a term that Kenyans like to use with reckless abandon, although it was specially made for certain, specific occasions, like the one facing Deputy President Wiliam Ruto. I can smell kizaazaa from a kilometre away, having gone through one just recently.

It was a bright, Saturday morning, so I called the fundi to fix a soap holder on the wall, but he called back to say he had punctured a water pipe instead. I spent the rest of the day trying to fix the pipe, which meant scraping off paints and drilling into stone. The leak finally stopped, but I still don’t have a soap holder.