Wajackoyah has opened the gate for leftist disruption in East Africa
If elected, he says he will hold a big pot-smoking bonanza in State House to drive away “evil spirits” from the people’s house, then in Parliament, and other corridors of power. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGAH | NMG
Kenya’s elections are as different from Uganda’s as day and night. For one, the vote is three weeks away, and no candidate has been beaten to a pulp, arrested, or had his supporters shot by security forces. And there are no men in dark glasses and balaclavas driving around in unmarked cars seizing opposition activists off the streets and their homes, and off to “safe houses” for a coffee with torturers.
There is one thing, though, in which they are alike: no matter how many candidates there are in the race, the system whittles them down to two, and they always take 90 percent or more of the vote between them.
