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It is costly to be a Kenyan citizen today

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Interior CS Kithure Kindiki interacts with passport applicants during his tour of the Immigration Department at Nyayo House, Nairobi on August 31,2023 [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

In a bid to convince Americans that the stability of the US lies in their hands, President John F. Kennedy, in his inaugural speech on January 20,1961 said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

While this was a rallying call for Americans in a changing political environment consumed by communism, it is a phrase that now resonates with a rather unwilling majority of Kenyans whose economic conditions have deteriorated under an administration that justifies this suffering and sacrifice as necessary for nation building.

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