Let poll winners start addressing challenges to our development

Jubilee supporters when they celebrated the victory of President Uhuru Kenyatta after the Supreme Court ruling. [File, Standard]

It's the aim of elections to unite, and energise Kenyans with purposeful, exciting and achievable goals. Democracy as a system of government by the consent of the people is challenging and tough. It has high economic and social values and yet never easy. The alternative to democracy is tyranny and chaos. Democracy is the bedrock of modern civilisation. Our just concluded general elections of 9th August once again confirmed these basic attributes of democracy at work.

Kenyans are hard workers. They're generally dreamers of a better country. They are positivists, the cup is a half-full nation. That is why when the day of elections came, they did not disappoint. They rose up with the sun and trooped into their respective election booths and voted in their six preferred candidates. The president, governors, senators, MPs, women representatives and MCAs.