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The night of long knives is at hand, and phones will go off

Safaricom mobile phone subscribers queue to upgrade their new sim cards registration at a shop along Kimathi Street, Nairobi on April 11, 2022 [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

It seems too much of a coincidence that the Communications Authority of Kenya’s (CAK) deadline for verification of SIM registration falls on this very day, just as the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) is conducting party primaries.

I don’t know the precise time when the CAK will decree unverified lines switched off, but I suspect it is midnight, when those who miss on party nominations will be on call as well.

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