Brace yourself for heady days ahead

Ominous clouds are gathering above the Kenyan skyline. Yesterday it became clearer we were a set of wagons on the firm track to another acrimonious, confrontational and violent election.

The Jubilee administration had its way in Parliament by amending the new negotiated election rules to allow for manual intervention if the technologically-backed voting fails. In short, this would mean discarding the Biometric Voting Register used to identify voters at polling stations.