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Why Mt Kenya must resist attempts to divide it into East and West

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki during the Kirie People's Forum in Mbeere North Constituency, Embu County, on November 19, 2025. [File, Standard]

Political history offers a hard but consistent lesson: Communities do not rise to power by numbers alone. They rise by cohesion, shared purpose, and strategic clarity. In contemporary Kenya, few warnings are more urgent than the attempt to fragment Mt Kenya into artificial political sub-regions.

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