Unpatriotic youth a threat to peace ahead of August elections

Unbelievably low level of patriotism among Kenyan youth is threatening the future of this nation in a big way. As Kenya heads to one of the most competitive General Election, the youth must be told in no uncertain terms that their conduct will impact heavily on the nation’s future. Using social media, dozens of young people are authoring and spreading hate messages ahead of the August 8 contest. Now, memories of young people burning Kenya from different angles during the 2007/2008 post-election violence are vivid to most of us ten years down the road. The cries and shouts of a country on fire are still as audible and agonising as they were then.

Why, I ask myself, did we burn Kenya and with extremely high levels of energy? Just why did we butcher our motherland to the scales that still baffle us? What wrong had this great country done to us to deserve the wrath of our youth?