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Colour of police uniform a minor detail but it's safe to face trivialities

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Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi when he admired the new police uniform with former Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet. [File, Standard]

In a matter of weeks, five years of electioneering will come to an end, and another phase of campaigning will start. This is the cycle that Kenyans are used to, for, our politicians do not have much to do apart from insulting the voters’ intelligence and squandering our taxes.

As the campaigning intensifies, promises are made as those which had been made earlier are forgotten. Decisions that had been made earlier are trashed, and there is overall blame game even when those decisions were once vehemently defended. During this period, politicians get angry, and promise to bring in changes, which in the larger scheme of things, will not improve service delivery or the lives of Kenyans.

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