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Singa-poor or Singapore? To achieve the dream, you must involve Kenyans

President William Ruto joins senior government officers during the ground breaking for the 1B Kaishan fertilizer power plant in Olkaria, Naivasha. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]

Kenyans head into the Christmas/New Year break with the 2027 drumbeats of “Singapore”, “First World” and “Economic Freedom” blaring in their ears.

You don’t need a crystal ball to see that these calls for higher ambition as a nation could quietly consign the March 2025 10-point UDA/ODM Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to the political dustbin.  That’s “realpolitik”. 

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