POLITICS has always been maligned by many when the urge to associate it with something sinister, selfish and greedy becomes easier than celebrating it as a noble profession. In fact, the latter was precisely what politics meant for the Greeks in the city-state when rulers were philosophers and renounced their personal wealth and broke from their family ties in order to serve the public.

This was so until ordinary people entrenched a negative connotation to the word based on how the greedy and selfish among us have turned politics into money-making ventures and, for some, a lucrative family enterprise.

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