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DP doesn't deserve disrespect from Mt Kenya leaders

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Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua addresses residents in Karatina town, Nyeri county. [File, Standard]

After this year's Madaraka Day celebrations at Muliro Stadium in Bungoma County, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki decried ethnic mobilisation, terming it dangerous. Barely three months later, he is a beneficiary of ethnic mobilisation spearheaded by a section of wrangling MPs in Central Kenya.

At least 48 Mt Kenya region MPs have endorsed Prof Kindiki as their supreme leader and link to the national government. However, the necessity and rationale behind such a linkage in a country that boasts of a defined leadership structure is yet to be expounded.

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