What portents the greatest risk to Kenya’s budding democracy? Certainly not the likely referendum on the BBI report, the political leadership or the political formations that will arise thereafter, or the tribal arithmetic and the tyranny of numbers.
The greatest risk to our democracy is the growing cynicism from a public that is increasingly getting wearied of the experiment with popular government. Democracy’s design was such that those who do not get the job done are thrown out and those who claim to know how to do it are put in.