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No need to blow hot and cold on Opposition

Azimio leader Raila Odinga addresses a consultative rally at Kamukunji Grounds in Shaurimoyo, Nairobi on December 07,2022. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

An unforgiving government and a struggling opposition are not quite an impressive mix for any blossoming democracy.

Then there's the tragedy of a religious community that straddles the comfort zone and morphs into a platform upon which the privileged sanitise their actions. Add these to a wait-and-see civil society and a rubber stamp legislature and your goose is cooked. The net effect is an increasingly outfoxed public.

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