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Mavoko evictions and Kenya's 'accept and move on' culture

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A woman gasps as a bulldozer demolishes a home in Athi River. The land the evictees occupied had a mother title under a company called Aimi Ma Lukenya. [Peterson Githaiga, Standard]

The culture of "accept and move on" will eat the remaining skeleton of the moral fabric of what holds Kenyans as one people if we do not strategically stop it.

As if rampant corruption that has cleared the flesh of our national moral consciousness does not offend any law of the land, the brutal manner in which we treat each other whenever we have differences is slowly, but steadily catching up with where corruption has placed us.

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