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Long shadow of fear stalking the country will ruin economy

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A teenager idling in Kakamega town on July 6, 2021. Most of the youth are jobless and a few who earns from Jua kali sector have been also hit economically. [File Standard]

In the aftermath of Gen Z protests, a long shadow of fear stalks our no longer young nation.

The fear seems to compete favourably with Covid-19 or the floods earlier in the year, the two other disasters that recently shocked our faith in science and ourselves.

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