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President William Ruto makes a State of the Nation address to Parliament on September 29, 2022. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

In one of those statistical titbits that you get on X (formerly Twitter), it is unsurprising that Kenya is one of four African countries (with Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana) featuring in the top 10 globally on average daily time spent on social media.

But KoX is often on another level when it comes to sharp comments. To a recent enquiry about which development projects the Kenya Kwanza administration has initiated in the past year (with details required on specific projects and location), one quick answer was "mikakati, mipangilio, tutafanya, tutaweka, tunapanga, tumesema, ninawapanga, tutawapanga, tutaweza and the coup de grace, tunaelewana jameni?"

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