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Why scientists Magufuli and Ruto are joined at the hip politically

President William Ruto is welcomed to the opening of the EAC Heads of State and Government Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.[FILE,Standard]

The disconnect between the disciplined mind of the scholar, and the discretionary power of the politician has been at work again. On Tuesday, President William Ruto commissioned the building of four tourist hotels in Tsavo National Park. He replayed the contradictory tensions between the politician and the scholar, resident in the self-same individual. 

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