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How vote-buying is now disguised as empowerment handouts

President William Ruto during a meeting with over 10,000 teachers at State House, Nairobi.[PCS]

In a strange twist of fate, Friday’s edition of The Standard pre-empted my opening punchlines for today, to make it the news headline for the day, moments before I released the article to the editor. For those of things spiritual, they would say we were in the spirit.

However, from an analytical world, one would wonder why such a randomised coincidence? Does it speak of something deeper, like say a trend or a general mood across the country? How many more Kenyans out there were independently reflecting on this wave of change sweeping across Africa?

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