Real democracy will triumph over hostilities in rival camps

Where are we going? Where do you see Kenya after October 26? I have lately been asked these questions more times than I remember. Yet the count is not the issue. The issue is I don’t have answers. The only thing I am certain of is the darkness ahead. And it is difficult to see through darkness. Accordingly, I can only grope in the murk, like everybody else. There is anxiety over the impending repeat presidential election. The diplomatic community is worried. The religious fraternity is unsure. The business community is nervous. Jubilee Party, NASA and IEBC, all seem uncertain. Where is the country is headed? Accordingly, everyone is calling for one kind of action or the other, ahead of the poll. There is palpable fear and confusion. Could Kenya explode?

Fear grips societies where thorns of masked monarchical orders begin choking seeds of a fledgling democracy. Our Christian leaders will remember the Parable of the Sower. We read, among other things, that a sower went out to sow.  “And . .  . some seed fell among the thorns . . . and the thorns grew up with the crop and chocked it (Luke 8:7).”