Is the Ballot the Solution?
By Kevin Kogo Is the Ballot the Solution? Daniel Moi is dead. He’s been dead for five years. He died peacefully, surrounded by family and friends, his final years a golden sunset of great-grandchildren’s visits, state-of-the-art doctors, and honorary awards. Unlike his victims—bodies dumped, maimed, rotting in thickets and riverbanks, broken by unlawful detentions, trumped-up charges, and torture chambers—Moi slipped away smiling. Retired by the ballot to his vast estates, he faded silently into the night, untouched by his past: 24 years of absolute terror. Then came Emilio Mwai Kibaki and his Rainbow Coalition, promising to save a drowning nation. Kenyans roared into 2003, hungry for change. But within 100 days, the cracks showed. Scandals. Corruption. The Coalition MoU collapsed. Tribalism festered. Authoritarianism slithered back—exiles, enforced disappearances, media raids, extrajudicial killings. Kenyans, refusing a refurbished KANU, voted...