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It's great idea to let cops raise kids, now that we've become police state

Police officers keep vigil during Saba Saba protests in Kitengela, on July 7, 2025. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

It’s evident that Prezzo Bill Ruto has been agonising about the quality of parenting, as he seeks to understand why the young generation, popularly known as Gen-Z’s have turned out as they are.

In recent weeks, Prezzo Ruto has blamed just about everybody, from the civil society, to the media, the opposition, and the church—not the evangelicals, whose prelates turn out in bright-coloured suits, dyed hair and high-waistlines, like the Madilu system—but the less flamboyant types known as the “mainstream Church.”

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