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Why splitting Mt Kenya vote could hurt those it seeks to help

Every election cycle seems to produce a familiar political temptation, the temptation to redraw identities in pursuit of short-term electoral advantage. Today, that temptation has resurfaced in calls to split the Mt Kenya region into competing political blocs, often described as East and West.

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