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Newly-voted EALA MPs, from left, ODM's Suleiman Shahbal, Jubilee's Kanini Kega and UDA's Hassan Omar at Parliament Buildings, Nairobi on November 17, 2022. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

A few years ago, I visited a Shiekh in Oman who was once the political secretary general of the Gulf Cooperative Council, their equivalent of the African Union.

He invited me to his home village (what we in Kenya call our "ushago" or "shags") and I was amazed to see the palace that he had built there. I had to ask him, why do you have a palace here in the desert while you have a modest home in Muscat, the capital?

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