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Why Ruto's 'tax everything that moves' approach is bound to fail

Kenya, and Kenyans, cannot afford a "trial and error" government when it is getting worse. One would like to believe that this is the logic, which informs our ongoing National Dialogue at Bomas of Kenya. Yes, this dialogue is the result of protests that were sequentially termed in local and international media as "electoral justice", "anti-government" and "cost of living" demos.

But it is also a dialogue that...