While hundreds of Kenyans have been reported to be killed in political crisis which began soon after announcing President Kibaki as the winner of presidential post, in Tanzania a large number of people are comparing what is said to take place in Kenya in ballot tallying with what happened in Zanzibar in 2000 when more than 20 people were killed after the election.

In Dar es salaam, the students from higher learning institutions made peaceful demonstrations from the university of Dar es salaam to the grounds of Jangwani. They condemned the killings and conducted a special discussion over the political situation in Kenya. Professor Haroub Othman, a senior Lecturer from the department of General studies, joked that the university must introduce a policy which will enable any university to degrade the degree of a graduate who behaves like a non educated person. The chairman of the Electoral Commision of Kenya, Samuel Kivuitu, was castigated for his blunder.

Is Kibaki a real man of the people or an enemy of the people? If people are killed because they don’t like their president, and if they are ready to close up their business and go to demonstrate against the existence of their own president, then President Kibaki must ask himself whose people he is trying to lead.

If people are fighting and killing each other because of a particular leader, then that leader has to step down. This will prove how he values people highly than his personal interests. He will be called a man of the people. From what is going on however, Kibaki is an enemy of the people.