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When President picked insiders to clean up religious sector mess

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Rev Mutava Musyimi presents a report to President William Ruto at State House, Nairobi, on July 30, 2024. [File, Standard]

In a classical case of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds, President William Ruto deployed religious institution figureheads to straighten up the mess of their own rogue sector.

Prayed into victory by church leaders, but under pressure from the people to act against rogue religious leaders, Ruto opted for the political masterstroke of flooding the taskforce with the who in who in Kenya's religious leadership.

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