To his credit, President Uhuru Kenyatta has been fairly magnanimous to his critics. Democracy means that somebody is always complaining about something….”The current political tension is not because of ‘early campaigns’ as the government would want Kenyans to believe. The narrative that early campaigns will derail the President’s agenda is fallacious because government projects are undertaken by civil servants. Security agents should only intervene in the event the speakers utter words that contravene article 33(2) of the Constitution. The only other rationale for banning political gatherings should be on public health ground because of the pandemic.

Source: The Star October 22, 2020 00:56 UTC