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Ruto lashes out at politicians for dividing citizens on tribal lines

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President William Ruto delivers his speech during Madaraka Day celebrations at Masinde Muliro Stadium in Kanduyi, Bungoma County. [PCS]

President William Ruto on Saturday fired a warning shot to politicians who are promoting politics of ethnicity and acclivity declaring the country will never go back to the dark past.

Speaking in Bungoma County which hosted the 61st Madaraka Day celebrations, the President said Kenya will never go back to politics of ethnicity, personalities and exclusion, contradicting his deputy, Rigathi Gachagua's often repeated mantra that Kenya Kwanza government was like a shareholding company where the people who had voted it in deserved to get the lion's share of the national cake before opposition zones were considered.

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