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UDA battles must not distract us from the Finance Bill

UDA logo during the party's National Governing Council meeting at the Bomas of Kenya in September 2023. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Organisationally strong parties have never been our thing. President Jomo Kenyatta infamously kept Kanu weak in order to prevent it from challenging the Provincial Administration.

President Daniel Moi's attempt to remake the party in his own image failed spectacularly, culminating in the mlolongo elections of 1988 and the advent of multiparty politics.

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