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An elderly man is assisted to cast his vote at Huruma polling station during the Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election on July 16, 2026. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
I wanted to write about Ol-Kalou, where police deployment in Thursday’s by-election was as large as the number of registered voters there, so I smelt a rat. I thought that could be a distraction, as something more nefarious was underway.
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