Kenyans want solutions from politicians and not confusion

Mass action in Kibra on March 20, 2023. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

This will be a very anxious decade for governments around the globe unless a lot of ingenuity is invested to temper peoples' anxieties and fears especially in the age of instantaneous broadcasting of events across the globe. Politicians will, more than before, attempt to stoke the emotions of the populace in a bid to capture power.

But if that is not done with great caution and restraint, we will witness a greater wrenching of suffering and humanitarian crises as economies will shrink and then unleash man's darkest impulses like xenophobia, ethnic and racial bigotry, and hysteria that may spiral into constant violent protests. Governments will have to strike a delicate balance between human rights, which are always denied, and security, which is always threatened, whenever there are confrontations between law enforcement agencies and the protesters.