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Use the budget season to show Kenyans how to revive economy

Shoppers purchasing packets of subsidized maize flour at a supermarket in Nakuru City. [Harun Wathari, Standard]

Not for the first or last time, the beloved country that we call Kenya is experiencing the sort of moment that the Chinese euphemistically refer to as, to paraphrase, "living in interesting times".

Quite visibly, we have our endless political theatre, day and night. In our latest act of this permanent political play, we are stuck on something called "bipartisan talks". That these talks are currently stalled should not surprise anyone. There is no end-game for either side of our political divide because the game is the end; endless elite jockeying over power not justice or progress.

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