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Godec’s statement weakens fight for Kenyan democracy

US Ambassador Robert Godec

Watching Ambassador Robert Godec’s statement on the Kenyan elections on Monday this week would have made a skilled ballerina on Broadway cringe in pain. He tried desperately to steer the middle road between NASA and Jubilee but in the end satisfied neither.

His ambiguous statement on the repeat election gives comfort to reactionary forces determined to maintain a perpetual state of constitutional authoritarianism. A condition where brutal authoritarianism is legitimised in the name of the constitution. His statement weakens the fight for Kenyan democracy.

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