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Kenya vs Singapore: Why we were equals in 1963 but worlds apart today

President William Ruto with Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at State House, Nairobi. [Picture By PSCU]

President William Ruto speaks with a lot of conviction about catapulting Kenya to the heights that Singapore has scaled in the last 60 years.

Singapore has become our benchmark, primarily because at the time Kenya got its independence in 1963, the two countries were at par. Like Kenya, Singapore grappled with myriad problems, among them racism that pitted citizens of Malaysian and Chinese origin against each other, and corruption. 

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