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President William Ruto lays a foundation stone for the 580-bed hostel at Eldas Teachers Training College in Eldas constituency, Wajir County, on June 2, 2026. [PCS]
“Let them eat cake.”
The phrase is commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette, the French queen who supposedly responded to news that ordinary people could not afford bread by suggesting they eat cake instead. Historians continue to debate whether she ever uttered those words. What matters is what the phrase has come to represent: a powerful elite passing judgment on people whose realities they neither understand nor experience.
More than two centuries later, the sentiment remains familiar.
