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Why we keep falling for empty election promises

Proposed architectural design of the Machakos Formula 1. [Photo, File]

There’s a hilarious short video doing the rounds touching on false promises made by our politicians while looking for votes, and, in this particular instance, even after the culprit had landed the high office. 

The video goes back to Mwai Kibaki presidency days and zooms in on one Governor who made fantastic (in the real meaning of the word) promises on what he would deliver during his tenure.

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