Update on the Kenyan Elections

 KENYA ELECTIONS

As the 2017 Kenyan Election are coming on up on August 8, Kenya needs to prepare themselves for what is to come. 

“We are going to win this election very early in the morning,” says Kennedy Oluoch, who plans to vote for Odinga. “We have enough numbers to beat the ruling party. If they try to rig it again, like they did in 2013, Kenya will burn.” Kenyan leaders are feeling very strongly about weather or not Uhuru Kenyatta will win another term in office. Judging based off of the last years there has been backlash of who has won, and people aren't afraid to use the method of violence again. 

The commission also says that, as in the 2007 violence, certain radio stations are openly propagating an ethnic agenda. “We are extremely worried about what is going on,” Francis Kaparo, the chairman of the commission, said at a press conference. “We are calling for peaceful campaigns ahead of the August elections.”

The problem with the Kenya election is that Kenya is polarized
by many ethnic lines. he ruling party is determined to win a second term, while the opposition says it sees signs of plans to rig the vote and vows not to accept a stolen election.