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Selling Kenyan youths down the river, after mortgaging their future

Gen Z protesters during anti-government demonstrations in Nairobi. [File Standard]

Let me state upfront that my absence from this page has nothing to with the on-going lecturers' strike. By the way, is the teachers strike in any way connected with the students? It's so hard to keep track of these things...

It seems to me almost everyone is on strike in this country; even Deputy Prezzo Rigathi Gachagua aka Riggy G is on a go-slow. He was a no-show last Sunday when Prezzo Bill Ruto called at a church in his backyard. And Riggy G being Riggy G, I guess he sent word so late even the seat reserved for him remained on the dais, evoking Brechtian theatre.

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