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Bomas team did their job, it's our role to perfect the nation

National Dialogue Committee co-chairs Kalonzo Musyoka and Kimani Ichungwah sign a bipartisan agreement at the Bomas of Kenya. [Dennis Kavisu, Standard]

The NADCO report is a great diagnosis of our society. As the Azimio team call it; imperfect and incomplete. Just as all human endeavours. To have expected the report to read like anything more than it is, would be wildly optimistic.

While from the start, members of the dialogue committee knew where the problem assailing our country is domiciled, they decided to follow the old beaten path that commissions of inquiry have followed; diffusing public pressure with phony public hearings. For all that the team reported are things in public knowledge that we need to deal with as a matter of political practicality.

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