Exclusion of some political elite is the elephant in the room

Let me at the outset confirm that I applaud Dr David Ndii and indeed any other Kenyan who expresses their preferred methods of resolving Kenya’s challenges with conviction. Such conversations, however uncomfortable, are constitutional, unless they morph into hate speech and incitement. I am also not worried that Kenyans will suddenly pull out machetes and start massacring each other pursuant solely to mass action calls or petitions for secession, just like they didn’t burn the country after Uhuru Kenyatta won, as had been predicted by the same Dr Ndii.

Granted some people, particularly the youth, will come out in scores at any call for action, but a majority of Kenyans will demand lots more convincing before hitting the streets. Without doubt, Kenya has serious challenges in its body politic. Since independence Kenya has exhibited serious fault lines, which the political elite exploit by defining as essentially ethnic.