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MPs’ greed as old as the African man

By Ted Malanda

What’s all these fury about MPs giving themselves a few perks and throwing in a nice State funeral? African men have been doing that sort of thing since time immemorial. Where I come from, a man owns everything in his homestead, including his wife, even when he has never given her father a goat in bride price.

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