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Kenya election, call for peace

Category: Election 2007 | Date: Jan 01 2008 | By: admin

I am sitting alone in the office today because most people fear venturing out due to the violence that was witnessed yesterday in some estates in Nairobi. Indeed, in the whole building, no one else has come to work like it happens even on holidays save for the security guards manning the gate.

There has been so much uncertainty here in Nairobi in the last three days and the condition makes it difficult to work, shop or even venture out of your own house. I am now not sure if I will resume my fieldwork next week, given that there is violence going on in other parts of the country as well. This will affect my program for January 2008 and probably result in a delay in my fieldwork planned for this month. I am sure the majority of Kenyans have also been affected in their daily work.

I am therefore appealing to every Kenyan to embrace peace and tolerance and plead with the politicians to restrain their supporters and seek redress through the courts. Otherwise everyone will suffers and especially the average Kenyan who have nowhere to run to. My work of conserving wildlife will also be affected just like all the other sectors.

Iregi Mwenja

Patriotic Kenyan

One Response to “Kenya election, call for peace”

Davida, on 02 Jan 2008

I am watching here in Ireland all of the news I can from Kenya- one of my very best firends who runs an NGO and who has lived and worked in Kenya for the last 30 years has also had to leave his home and base in Ngong. He and the staff with him are OK but this trouble will mean that food security, water and social infrastructure will be again under extreme threat. The sooner the parties talk together and that this trouble is ended the better. The Kenyan people do not need this. And indeed the Kenyan wildlife and conservancies do not need this. I can only support and agree with your plea.

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