Scenes from polling stations were inspiring proof of love for country

Voters queue to cast their votes at Moi Avenue Primary school polling station during the 2022 General election on August 09, 2022. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Peace wins! All Kenyans should be congratulated for finding their calm and keeping it. Ululations are in order for aspirants who stayed collected when votes were being collected and counted. Peace talk evolved into peace acts. From observations through the campaign, voting and counting season, we can declare authoritatively that peace is possible in Kenya! Let-peace-win T-shirts should be Kenya's new political uniform. We have experienced enough chaos in the past such that even the slightest imagination of peace breaking should upset us. It is high time the chaos factory shut down permanently. All ambitions must bow down to peace. When peace wins, order matures. Where order matures, systems deliver. Choosing peace is choosing co-existence. Choosing peace is choosing neighbourliness. Choose peace is choosing a sacred regard for the other.

At a time of high tension, stiff competition and rollercoaster emotions, Kenya's peace has held. People did not just keep the peace but they seem to agree that peace is important and worth guarding. The law enforcement officers were spared from cocking their guns and loading tear gas canisters, this to the relief of their families who wave them each day and watch them disappear into the line of fire where their return home is always an answered prayer.