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Deal with ethnic political parties to end ethnicity

Since independence, the politics in Kenya have been pegged on ethnicity. The mobilization of voters especially is ethnically based. This makes it challenging to fulfill the vision of the founders of the nation who had one of their agenda as bringing to an end ethnicity, which was a divide and rule strategy used by the colonialists.

The wrangles indeed witnessed in the country after every election is due to the ethnic-based politics played by our leaders so that whenever the election results, especially the presidential results, are unsatisfying. Instead of mentioning the party involved, the opponents tend to blame the community, which has the majority within that party. Though the political class may not be much affected, it is witnessed in the actions of hatred portrayed by their supporters.

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