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Ignore the noise, only top court can take us back to the ballot again

Kipchumba Murkomen

The repeat presidential election has come and gone. It is now time to look back and see what lessons we can draw from it, if any, as we forge ahead with nation-building.

It is regrettable that whereas President Uhuru Kenyatta submitted himself to the electorate as ordered by the Supreme Court on September 1, Raila Odinga refused to equally subject himself to the truest test of democracy - a date with the Kenyan people at the ballot.

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