Tumeona Taifa la Kenya likiwa limegawanyika katika kipindi cha uchaguzi wa kisiasa mwaka huu 2022. Na uku Tume ya uchaguzi ikiwa imemtangaza mgombea kutoka muungano wa Kenya Kwanza Muheshimiwa Ruto kama Rais Mteule wa Kenya uku Muungano wa Azimio wa kipinga matokeo ya ushindi wa Ruto Makahama kuu. Mapingamizi ya muungamo wa Azimio ya kitupiliwa mbali na Hakimu Martha Koome akisemema hayana uthibitisho wa kutosha juu ya uchaguzi kuwa udanganyifu na kuthibitisha Rais Ruto kama rais mteule wa taifa la Kenya.
Rais Ruto yeye sio muumini wa serikali wa nusu mkate, je atatumia mbinu gani kuliunganisha taifa la Kenya ambalo mpaka sasa kuna ombwe la mgawanyiko .
Kenya has had six multiparty elections since 1991 when the one-party state ended, pressure from civil society and donors. All elections since then have been high-stakes ethnic contests.
Three of the last six elections culminated in large scale ethnically targeted violence to win the presidency. In 1992 and 1997, under President Daniel arap Moi, state sponsored Kalenjin militia killed Kikuyu in the Rift Valley to keep them from voting. Then, in 2007-8 following the declared win of President Mwai Kibaki, violent politically organized Kalenjin gangs attacked Kikuyu and other upcountry ethnic groups in the Rift Valley, followed by retaliatory violence against Kalenjin, Luo, and other civilians in the Rift and elsewhere in Kenya.
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to charge six individuals for the 2007-8 post-election violence, five of whom were well known politicians, dampened the prospects of a recurrence in the 2013 and 2017 elections; they were relatively peaceful compared with earlier ones, albeit still contested. Before that, in 2002, ethnic violence was not on the cards as the two opposing candidates were both Kikuyu.
Time will tell. The best we can do is wait