The image on this op-ed isn't for Kenya's Diaspora but for Rwanda's Diaspora directing them to various US to polling centers across the United States for them to go vote, yes RWANDA; a tiny once civil war-torn country with a GDP less than 25% of Kenya's, its economic and financial wherewithal is a fraction of Kenya's – planning and managing elections for its Diaspora. So while Rwanda excelled in facilitating its Diaspora to vote a few days ago while Kenya has hours to go before the 2017 general elections and an uncertain outcome that has the nation on edge and yet in the face of all the hoopla and anxiety as the country treads down a potentially perilous election aftermath, one major constituency remains conspicuously absent, the Kenyan DIASPORA. Not by their own choice, nor by accident nor lack of resources, quite to the contrary – it is due to intentional disenfranchisement by the powers that be in both the Jubilee government and the opposition coalition, NASA. … Continue reading
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