Let’s avoid violence and have peaceful elections

Kisumu Senator, Peter Anyang' Nyong'o hides under the podium during the Migori violence.The supposedly culture of violence in our politics is pervasive and a tragic indicator of how our societal fabric has been penetrated by intolerance and power hungry greed

August polls are nigh and political temperatures are running amok as the country gears up for another exercise of electing leaders.

Campaigns have heated up, and all that come with them, which unfortunately in some instances include violent flare-ups. I witnessed two incidents in Migori where guns shots were fired randomly and carelessly.