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Jubilee Party's Nominated MP Sabina Chege. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

I pity Sabina Chege. When the history of Jubilee Party is written, at least a footnote will be reserved for her, either for being too ambitious or too innocent to be the person who helped snuff life out of the party whose symbol is a dove.

The former Woman Representative for Murang'a decided to bite the hand that fed her and ousted former President Uhuru Kenyatta as the party leader. An act of courage, or impetuous missteps of a "child"? Niccolo Machiavelli advises in his book, 'The Prince' that never fight wars of conquest. When the politics of siege mentality kick in in the mountain, together with her comrades, they will be carved like carcasses fit for hounds.

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