THE spate of political violence that has flared up in some parts the country is a stark reality of how desperate some politicians have become.In some cases, violence has broken out among the youth merely after crossing paths, but in other instances the scary pattern is well-calculated and masterminded by desperate elements as a way of intimidating their foes.The overall objective is to intimidate their competitors along with their foot-soldiers and ultimately scuttle their campaign.It is a dirty scheme that is also designed to dampen the morale of voters in the competitors’ strongholds.The other covert aim is to falsely portray to voters in other areas that some people in a particular location have become violent as a way of showing dissatisfaction against a particular party.It is an underground game-plan designed to whip up emotions among a larger portion of the population so that they take to the streets and portray dissatisfaction to a gullible publics […]
CALCULATED VIOLENCE
