VIOLENCE

Violence-cruel and harmful behaviors or action.
The past years have been one of the most tragic periods in the history of Kenya. How did we move from a peaceful voting to a violent protest?
After achieving a prosperous Christmas day two days after the election an electoral battle between ODM and PNU arisen where nearly 1,000 people were killed and more than 350,000 displaced and property worth billions of shillings destroyed in violence occasioned by presidential election. Cases of sexual violence against women, girls, and boys in some make shift camps had occurred also many children were being raped which led to the infection of sexually transmitted diseases.
Most youth were engaged in the terror where they were used up by their leaders to protest which led to the killing of many youths in different parts of the country. Business premises went up in flames and products were lost through the fire riotous mobs began looting and burning property in many parts of the country to protest which was considered as a rigged election churches were being burnt with people inside and leaders killed. The heavy damage inflicted to the Kenyan economic from which we were to reach to the second world countries.
Low turnout of pupils was marked across the country as schools reopened for the new academic year where to many schools were burnt.
The entire world was shocked by brutal killing and displacing away of people. Attackers moved from houses to houses then from village to village. They dragged passengers out of vehicles and requested for identification people from certain communities were beaten to death in their own motherland.
Will such attacks restore the vast losses of properties or reduce the painful suffering thousands have?

By: Alex Ndegwa.