A phone call lasting five minutes can avert months of political disruptions

Migori Town residents demonstrate over the high cost of leaving. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]

Peace is an asset a poor country should not risk losing. To be a poor country and a violent country is a double tragedy. Our government cannot already feed its people. To introduce violence in their menu of pain is indescribable betrayal that creates a little hell down here.

When people are already teary out of hunger, to add tear gas into their eyes is grave disservice. To suffer poverty and suffer peacelessness is to die twice. A food shortage and a peace shortage is a tough combination for any people.