Do you think violence reported over elections was instigated?

Jubilee presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga

In the period before the elections, there was a lot of drama, blame and counter blame between the Opposition and the Government. While I believe the violence was not consciously induced, there was a build-up right from the start when the impression the public got was that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission was working at the behest of the Jubilee Government.

It turned out that Jubilee was in the forefront defending whatever action IEBC took, to the extent one would have mistaken the Government to be the mouthpiece of the electoral agency. When the Government purchased police hardware and placed it on display days before the general election, some took it as a sign the Government was intent on rigging the elections as the Opposition had claimed all along and was getting ready for a showdown.