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Slim wallets, extreme fun: Why this will be a Christmas like no other

Deputy President William Ruto shares a light moment with children from various children's homes from Uasin Gishu County who visited him in Eldoret. He presented them with a donation to celebrate the Christmas festivities.

With a battered economy, disenfranchised parents over mass failure in KCSE, deaths on our roads and a deeply divided country facing an uncertain political future, this will be one Christmas many Kenyans will want to forget.

It will also be a Christmas of many firsts. Nakumatt, which has for three decades dominated the retail sector and has been the first choice for shoppers, is on its deathbed. And for those going to the Coast, the Standard Gauge Railway -- now an important piece in the local travel puzzle, injecting 10,000 people to Mombasa’s population each day -- is fully booked till January 10.

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