Arrest emerging intolerance during campaigns

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So far, campaigns for the August elections have been peaceful, restoring the long lost hope that the Kenyan voter has finally come of age; that what should guide their choices are the issues on the table. Many believed that Kenyans had embraced the democratic space, the rights and the freedoms that the Constitution guarantees every single citizen.

How misplaced that hope was. The hostility that Deputy President William Ruto was shown while on a campaign in Kisumu on Wednesday tells of an intolerance that should by now have been buried and forgotten.