I had to play hide and seek with time and civilian road blocks to make it to Kisumu airport for my flight to Nairobi. People's houses are burning, property is being destroyed, it matters less whether one is Kikuyu, Luo, Kalenjin, Luhya, or whatever.It's a matter of time and the violence will assume a life of its own that will go beyond the shades of tribalism. We must do something to save democracy and our country Kenya. 

We are caught in a moral and legal dilemma. To allow a government, whose mandate is being questioned to govern, will imply that Kenyans are not keen on upholding democratic ideals. To resist governance from such a government under the present circumstances where mobs seem keen on ethnic cleansing is to destroy the very fabric of nationalism that is needed to make a nation.

To hide under legalism to legitimize a flawed process is to kill the spirit of rule of law; to overthrow the law in order to oust leadership whose mandate is being contested is to set a precedent where one can simply violate the law to serve the whims of time.

General Service Unit ready to disperse demonstrators

To save Kenya, let us not push the problem under the carpet. It is clear that Kenya is on fire simply because a few individuals took it upon themselves to manufacture electoral results. I do not think any tribe send these individuals to "steal results." Many times in the streets of Nairobi, whenever a thief is caught, mobs do not ask for the tribe of the culprit - they simply apply "mob justice." The ongoing mob - injustice on innocent people in both urban and rural areas must stop.

The Kenyan legal advisors ought to quickly isolate the few culprits and subject them to justice according to the law; if the spirit of the Kenyan law has evaporated; they ought to simply name and shame them.

Agitated Kenyans ought not to punish innocent people simply because a suspect happens to come from a particular community. I appeal to political elites, business people, and the Kenyan middle class in general to take individual initiative to pin point to their relatives that vote tallying irregularities was not executed by a whole community but by a few people. And that no violence is directed to any particular tribe. Mass action ought not to be targeted towards individual communities; it ought to be simply a peaceful but loud expression of people against forces that are keen to rape democracy in Kenya and by extension Africa.

I also appeal to the international community, inclusive of the East Africa Community, African Union, China, the West and others to assist Kenyans by isolating extremists who seem keen on engaging in "Kamikaze" strategy on democracy. Let the world know who they are and where possible subject them to an ancient rule of ensuring that they do not have visas, and that their families are restrained from external travel.

People are dying; the economy is slowing down; every other evening, city residents keep hearing whistles blowing and people being urged to get out of their homes. Can Mr. Mwai Kibaki and Mr. Raila Odinga talk to each other either on Celtel or Safaricom lines and stop this mayhem? Can our media break down the structures of Party of National Unity and Orange Democratic Movement and help us isolate hardliners? Where is the Kenyan Chief Justice? Can he and the Attorney General step in and order sanity into the heads of politicians? If we wait for much longer, what started as political discontentment will assume its own life that none of the political combatants will enjoy presiding over as presidents.  Above all, we must safeguard democracy and lives of our fellow Kenyans.