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Kenyans must question more than clap when leaders issue directives

The announcement has hence been made this week, that all schools will reopen on Monday, next week. The message from President William Ruto required critical reflection, in the wake of the present troubled times. The gathering, instead, burst into applause.

They sounded like the sheeple in George Orwell's Animal Farm bursting into, "Two legs bad, four legs good."

Only a day earlier, Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu, had announced indefinite...