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Why Kenyans must all speak out against abductions by any regime

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Abduction No.2. We shall number it Abduction No.2 of 2023, so that we do not confuse it with the second abductions in 2024 and 2025.

Because the appetite for abductions feeds on reception of the first ones. If there is silence on the first, more will follow. Then continuing silence will lead us into double figures in the year, and more in the next five years.

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