Healing Kenya calls for action on issues cited in poll standoff

President Uhuru Kenyatta is escorted by Chief of Defence Forces General Samson Mwathethe after inspecting a guard of honor during the 54th Jamhuri Day celebration at Kasarani Stadium on 12/12/17. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

In his remarks during the 54th Jamhuri day celebrations at the Kasarani Stadium yesterday, President Uhuru Kenyatta emphasized on what every Kenyan must internalise: “There will be a 5th, 6th and even 10th President of Kenya, but there will not be a second, third or fourth Kenya. Leaders come and go; but Kenya remains.”

That was apt. At no other time in Kenya’s history has peace and stability been threatened as has been the case in the period immediately after the August 8 general elections.