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How IEBC portal helped Kenyans handle anxiety

A demonstration of result transmission screen by IEBC before the 2017 General Election. [File, Standard]

One thing I have learnt over the past few days is few people heeded outgoing Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago's 'usiweke siasa kwa roho' advice. I bet, going by a clip of him on social media, he also didn't heed his own advice.

You can see and feel the anxiety all over. People are commenting with memes of several rolls of tissue to mean their stomachs have not held up their anxieties. Others are honest enough to admit that they are yet to step out of their homes and back to their usual schedules.

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