Your Excellency, with age and with experience comes responsibility, you have the age you have the experience, take the responsibility and lead the charge.
The East African
Thursday February 25 2021
This region of vast mineral deposits, fertile soils and beautiful game reserves can do without the boozing and deadly livestock raids. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGAH | NMG
Summary
The men remain the biggest obstacle to development; stopping children from going to school, pushing girls into early marriages to old men in exchange for cattle, drinking alcohol most of the time and eating Unicef-supplied children’s nutrition supplements for their own libido enhancement. And of course staging livestock raids using deadly automatic weapons.
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