Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:15:42 +0000 YES, Uhuru Kenyatta may have won Kenya’s elections but certainly he has a daunting task lying ahead of him. The incoming government must devise strategies, as a matter of urgency, to move the country out of the current political doldrums and focus on achieving socio-economic development for the benefit of all Kenyans. After such a bruising campaign and election whose voting pattern was supremely influenced by ethnicity, the incumbent president has a huge responsibility of unifying the country by working together with the opposition. Unfortunately, Kenya’s election was not based on meritocracy. Instead, it was premised on two centres of political power that were ethnically influenced by the ‘big five’ tribes which have for a long time determined who gets elected into political power, it be parliamentary, civic or presidential level. We observe that during the just ended elections, majority of Luos supported opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) leader […]
