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Yes, elections should not be a matter of life and death

A policeman keeps an eye on voters at Karuri primary school during the just concluded Kiambaa by-election.[George Njunge,Standard]

The by-elections in Kiambaa Constituency and Muguga Ward in Kiambu County have held Kenyans’ political imagination hostage for the past few months. They were billed as a titanic battle of wits between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his erstwhile political buddy Deputy President William Ruto. They were even more significant because they were in President Kenyatta’s political backyard.

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