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The Kenya we want lies hidden in our moral sense, but do we care?

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Kenya at sixty is a begging giant and a moral dwarf. We are crying about the debt burden while remaining silent about the moral crisis that led us here and keeps us here. The economics equation we are applying will not work because we do include values as a constant in the equation. We hype an economic prosperity that does not include moral propagation. It will not work. The irony is that we are silent on moral propagation while boasting of a God-fearing government. This exposes the difference between political spirituality and prophetic spirituality. The former pulls the crowds, while the latter loves the crowd. Our present government did excellently in pulling the crowd but is terrible at loving them.

Our politics do not demand moral commitments. So leaders lie and get quite good at it. They learn arrogance from each other. Being role models is not part of their ambitions.

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