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Thanks to climate change, free thinkers of Nyanza have turned into sycophants

Siaya Governor James Orengo addresses a past event. [File, Standard]

I hear a lobby by the curious name of Nyanza Professional Sycophants is raising funds to orchestrate the removal of Siaya Governor James Orengo from office for embarrassing Raila Odinga aka Baba. Actually, Baba has no capacity for embarrassment. I mean, if he were, he would have expressed his own disappointment in himself.

Orengo's crime, I understand, was exercising his free thoughts (as learned people ought to) and reminding that youthful Kenyans did not lay their lives to pave way for his party, ODM, to join a cabal of thieves in government.

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