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Five-year terms good enough for president

Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei has made a proposal to increase the term the president serves from five years to seven. That is within his right.

In the gentleman's mind a president needs to serve seven years for him or her to fulfill his manifesto. He further postulates that because five years is such a short time it has made the elections a do-or-die affair. The panacea to all this, according to him, is to add two more years and Kenyans will witness a revolution.

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