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We need leadership that is not tainted by political bad manners

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A protestor braves teargas along Moi Avenue, Nairobi, during anti-government protests on July 16, 2024. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Although the Ruto administration has become the punching bag for the 2024 Gen-z revolution, the young people's uprising is a repudiation of a post-independence political order that has evolved in the last 60 years.

Just as the breaching of the Berlin wall by thousands of East Germans was a repudiation of 70 years of communist experiment, the 2024 mandamano by Gen-Zs is a confirmation that our 60 year old post-independence political order has come to the end of its shelf life.

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