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All Kenyans want is to kiss and love…and occasionally hunt for work

Members of the public walk through the special double pedestrian lane along a Nairobi street on August 21, 2019. [Samson Wire, Standard]

I get it that Kenyans have had it rough for the past decade and a half, with a truckload of issues that elicited more questions than answers. And Kenyans have had a set of questions of their own, whose answers they sought on Google. As the giant tech company marked its 15 years in the country, it has compiled the top questions from that period.

We’re talking about, roughly from 2006, when the nation was roiled by a series of imbroglio: there was the Anglo Leasing scandal, in which billions were siphoned out of the national coffers and wired to a phantom entity located in rural England, which purported to have built an advanced forensic lab and passport processing equipment, on the treetops of Karura forest, where the National Intelligence Service are located.

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