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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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