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Ballot boxes for Mumbuni North ward by-election at Mumbuni Girls in Machakos County, on November 26, 2025. [John Muia, Standard]
Here’s a question. Did we just have “third world” by-elections? Or rather, “buy-elections”? Here’s another. 616 days, or 88 weeks from today, will our new-fangled “third world to first” ruling regime literally have to buy all of us in 2027 in order to remain in office? Tough questions.
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