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WANJAWA: Democracy is dead, long live the lie that people’s voice is heard

By-elections show “democracy” now a hollow ritual — more performance than principle, more deception than deliberation.

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by EDWIN WANJAWA

News07 December 2025 - 04:57
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Homabay Town MP Peter Kaluma is accosted at Kasipul polling station /HANDOUT

In 1991, when Kenyans won the battle to repeal Section 2a of the Constitution and restored multiparty democracy, the country erupted in hope.

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