There is an big, overwhelming majority in Kenya that does not concern the presidential candidates, as well as small or big aspirants to other well-paid positions at the political headquarters in Nairobi and the counties of the country.
It is the one who is already tired of this electoral bail, which although he has voted for Raila Odinga, does not recognize himself in his (re) act and who has as primary interest to return to the serenity of life ever, perhaps with some Good news: lowering prices thanks to the return of shilling stability and a more benevolent look at the categories of workers and the poor people from the new government.
The elections in Kenya have been over a decade, even if they are as peaceful as in 2013, they are not a good thing: they are first and foremost spending a lot of money on the country, something unimaginable that depicts not only the casks of the Parties and their financiers, but in the end also that of hundreds of minor, even independent candidates, who cultivate the dream of a life-long career.
Secondly, they make bad publicity to the country: never to say that the elections will bring about changes or be a happy event.
Here in Kenya, the specter of the violence in 2008 will go in secular seculorum.
Precisely for this, press and media have months to play on the background, on guesswork and blow on the firing lights just lit up with the usual bellows news.
When then the slightest skirmish, the crash, the slum in the slum or the stronghold of the trumpet politician appears (correctly, incorrectly for those who make information today is no longer important), it can be unleashed.
These days, even the same Kenyans have noticed those who want only peace and hope that in a few hours the curtain can be closed on the annoying screen of the scrutiny.
The kenyans.co.ke site takes for example US titles, including prestigious such as Washington Post and New York Times. After the demonstration in the Mathare slum that caused 2 deaths (a stabbed for a near-stage lite and the killer then killed by the police), while another 2 (children, unfortunately) were killed by tear gas launched to disperse people . Of Mathare we know, and well knows the tendentious print that there are crimes and violence every day in the slums at the outskirts of Nairobi.
In Kisumu, where the ethnic group to which Odinga belongs is practically the only present, at the announcement of their leader's brogli, there have been demonstrations with young infiltrates that have thrown stones and burnt tires. No dead.
Media and international press has drawn titles like "Kenya: Violence As in 2008" (remember that 1600 people died and 6,000 were left unattended), "New Eruptions of Violence in Kenya," and "Kenya in Blood After Voting".
We Italians are used to this kind of news, Americans too, but Kenyans taste the bitter taste of "fake news" for the first time, and realize how a hasty and unconfirmed statement of a presidential aspirant can Trigger a campaign of falsehood and exaggeration against your country.
There is only to wait for the epilogue of what for a while is no longer just an exercise of democracy, but a display of low instincts, maladies, opportunism and superficiality as well as a waste of time and money, which call "elections ".
Let us make the demands of international voting observers and John Kerry's words: if anyone who misses the presidency challenge will have complaints, make them in appropriate legal venues and invite his supporters to calm. Then, except for groups of faceless and disenchanted who perhaps have not even voted because they no longer believe in politics, neither to God nor to mankind, is what tomorrow everyone wishes. A serene life.