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Enduring lessons for leaders from Gachagua woes

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Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua during impeachment hearing in the National Assembly on October 8, 2024. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Louis Farrakhan, the African-American religious leader and a consistent voice of black dignity, makes a profound statement that would be most apt for Kenya's political moment.

"When you see great men fall, don't laugh. Learn! Because you are on your way up and the things that tempted people to fall you and I are not free from (that temptation) nor from the weakness that would cause us to stumble and fall".

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