The Kenyan political maturity is to be congratulated.

  

Date Posted: 3/15/2013 11:35:52 AM

Posted By: mwalim  Membership Level: Silver  Total Points: 181

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On fourth March, all the countries of the world had their eyes and ears on Kenya. This was the big day that Kenyans were exercising their civic right of electing people to represent them in different capacity in the government. The people who were elected were the president, the governor, the senator, women representative, and the county representative. As per the constitution, it was the election of a kind ever to be held I Kenya where the president would have faced a run off if he or she failed to secure less that 50% plus one vote and 25% of the votes in at least they have of the counties in Kenya.

The election, according to the IEBC chairman Isaac Hassan, was the most complex in the history of Kenya. Kenyans conducted six elections on one day. Deputy prime Minister was after six days of waiting declared the president-elect by the IEBC. Mr. Uhuru had reached the required constitutional threshold.

The peak of the political maturity was realized when Kenyans maintained the highest level of peace. Everything went to the opposite of the last general election which was concluded with skirmishes as the results were disputed. Kenyans waited patiently but peaceful for the IEBC to perform its constitutional duty of tarrying the votes and announcing the winner to the Kenyans.

After Raila doubted the IEBC, he unlike the 2007 election that resulted to killing and looting, he decided to challenge the results in the Supreme Court; a very prudent move. This shows that Kenyans are moving away from the era of fighting in the name of seeking justice to a rather mature manner of getting justice which in this case is the court of law.

When the BVR gadgets failed, Kenyans remained philosophical. They understood that the technology has benefits and challenges.

This is the first time Kenya employed that level of technology in the voting process. In the year 2000, the USA experienced similar technical hitches with their voting machines. There is a first time for everything.

Understanding the importance of peace to a country is vital. The government should facilitate civic educating which will educate the citizens the importance of peace keeping.

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