Whatever reasons exist for the contestation of the upcoming elections, however minor they may seem, could provide fertile ground for disharmony.
Most Kenyans are alert to this salient fact, and reports are beginning to emerge that in some areas, people assailed by feelings of insecurity amid the heightened campaign rhetoric bordering on ethnic connotations in some cases, are taking early precautions and relocating to areas where they are likely to feel safe.
It says a lot about how Kenyans relate to each other and feel about the government providing security for them, but more importantly, it is a pointer to how politicians, especially, have been a big let-down to the Kenyan people in general.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has come under strain from both quarters over what individual parties believe could disadvantage them. It all boils down to claims of rigging by the biggest two parties.
The latest complaint against IEBC is the provable existence of people who are long dead; on the current voter register even after KPMG carried out an audit on the current register and the electoral agency had reportedly deleted 88,602 names of dead voters.
IEBC needs to come out clearly and convince a sceptical public that everything is above board and everything will be done to ensure there is no cheating by whichever side.