Restore citizens’ confidence in elections to avert doom

Next week, Thursday August 8, will be exactly two years since Kenyans went to the botched presidential election of 2017. As the poet Jenny Joseph would say, the sun has continued to burst the sky, regardless that Kenyans went to a dud presidential poll. The sea has lapped the great rocks and blackbirds filled the air. People still walk in the street and laugh.

You cannot stop time. Time and tide wait for no man, it has been said. Contrary to what another poet, WH Auden, has said, you cannot pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. Nor can you pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. Nature flows on, doing the things she has always done. The songster Samba Omar Mapangala would tell you to chew the bones while your jaws are still strong. You will lament, someday, that you squandered the opportunity. Make hay while the sun shines.