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Plunder at the top goes on while the rest told to tighten their belts

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President William Ruto. [PCS]

We must learn to live within our means. This is the new refrain from the Kenyan State, in the wake of the current phase of the strike by health workers.

There is, however, a massive gap between word and the practice. The gap speaks of two critical things. First is the traditional attitude we have carried over from colonial times, that public resources should be plundered.

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