Enough blood has been shed; do not put us in harm's way, Raila

Then-CORD principal Raila Odinga (centre) being whisked away by security after a protest he led outside IEBC offices at Anniversary Towers, Nairobi, was broken up by police, April 25 2016. [File, Standard]

Those who do not learn from history, as George Santana warned, are certainly doomed to repeat. If the unfolding events associated with calls for mass action are anything to go by, then we all have reasons to be very afraid.

However, fear cannot be our stock in trade as the people of Kenya for, as the good book says in 2nd Timothy 1:7, "For good has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and love and sound mind". It is indeed a tense moment for ordinary Kenyans for the political class has chosen to use them as pawns in the asinine game of political chess. For, pray tell, how can the high cost of living be solved through mass action and threats to cause a civilian coup against a government legitimately in office?