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The Big Four agenda and intrigues around succession politics

President Uhuru Kenyatta (second right) with First Lady Margaret Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto at a past function. [File, Standard]

There are many reasons for the current political chasms in Kenya. Count vitriolic posturing as one and the rising influence of money as the other. No politician is spared. And months after the General Elections, the race has started again in earnest. And it looks like it might not stop; not any time soon. It’s a ping-pong game revolving around the Big Four, succession politics and the handshake.

In all this, we have the change-the-Constitution speed car, protect-the-handshake gunmen, and Deputy President William Ruto’s caravan.

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