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Our political vocabulary is full of verbal violence due to greed

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The intolerance of dissent is itself violence. [iStockphoto]

There is too much violence in our politics. I do not mean physical violence. I refer to the vocabulary of our politics. It is violent.

The aims of our political leaders are violent. Their aims, short-term or middle-term, do not appear to be the well-being of all Kenyans. Their aims are not eradication of poverty, ignorance and ill-health.

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