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AJUOK: Of coups, fraudulent polls and democracy on trial

Putschs are essentially a fight between the uniformed forces and the civilian rulers on looting of national resources.

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by COLLINS AJUOK

Big-read06 September 2023 - 15:32
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President William Ruto presides over cadet commissioning parade at the military academy in Lanet, Nakuru, on March 10, 2023. Discipline is the staple diet of a professional military.

As soon as word went out that the Gabonese military had deposed President Ali Bongo Ondimba on August 30, 2023, excited Kenyan social media users jokingly (or maybe not at all) loudly wondered when coups would hit closer home.

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