Let's punish electoral offenders personally

IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati is whisked away by security officers and the clergy after chaos erupted between Azimio and UDA leaders at the auditorium, Bomas of Kenya Aug 15, 2022. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

To mark the beginning of week two of the Supreme Court presidential election petition, allow me to offer a quote by Cicero: "Any person can make a mistake, but only an idiotic person persists in their error".

Now let us replace 'person' with 'country'. In other words, if this petition does not provide an electoral re-set, a correction of our recurring mistakes, then we risk the persistence of a gross national error. I say this for three reasons.