Kasipul poll chaos is a mirror of our national decay

IEBC chairman Erustus Ethekon with commissioner Anne Nderitu at JKIA Nairobi after receiving first batch of ballot papers for the 27th November by elections.[Collins Oduor, Standard]

By shooting dead Ong’ondo Were at City Mortuary Roundabout and speeding off on a motorbike, the gunman did not just cut short the life of a legislator; he reopened an old wound Kasipul electorate had tried to heal.

Were’s shooting mirrors the utter collapse or weakening of social norms; what sociologist Emile Durkheim referred to as “anomie.”