NGALA CHOME - What Kenyans Have Always Wanted is to Limit the Powers of the Executive
ad nauseum during the week of waiting that followed Kenya’s 2013 general elections. In ads published in the run-up to the 2013 elections by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), people were told to vote, go home and accept the results. Encouraged by a state that had since the 2007 post-electoral violence dominated public discourse and means of coercion, the military pitched camp in polling stations. Many streets in Kenya’s cities and towns remained deserted for days after the polls closed. According to Ngunyi, the winner of the 2013 elections had been known four mont...
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