WILD,WILD
NAIROBI
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU,SIMON CULLEN,LAUREN
SAID-MOORHOUSE ,DOMINIQUE VAN HEERDEN, BRIANA DUGGAN AND STEVE ALMASY REPORTING
FROM LAGOS,NAIROBI,LONDON AND ATLANTA
iconic:Uhuru with his late father and first president of the nation,the reverred statesman Jomo Kenyatta
The
Kenyan General Elections has come and
gone but the violence that greeted it was not totally unexpected as this
has being the way of the East Africans for a long time now.
Since
Former President Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Arap Moi left office,the East Africa
nation has always spilled blood in electioneeing periods with a lot of life
lost in the process.
As
at press time,the situation was not in any-way different with reports of
tension in Nairobi,MOmbasa,Kisumu among other Kenyan cities and major townships.
On
the day of the polls proper,The News
office Desk of the Paedia Express Multimedia Group in Lagos,Nigeria had called
on frontline African public affairs analyst ,Mr Richard Mammah via a telephone interview on possible insight on the polls and even he could not stick out
his neck but stated that he felt that the race should eb a tough one between
the incumbent ,Mr Uhuru Kenyatta and his direct rival,Raila Odinga with the
coalition made possibly tilting the victory balance at the end of the day
towards any of the candidates that has the better carrots on the table for the coalitions.
As
it later turned out ,the victor,Kenyatta clearly won without the help of a
third party with the opposition calling him a
cheat as the latter insisted that
the electoral body's digital network was
hacked.
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