Beware Mheshimiwa, your wife could be a widow during the elections

Mugabe Were(inset), the newly elected Embakasi MP was shot dead outside his Woodley estate house after the 2007 General Election

Political assassination has been employed as the ultimate and final way to get rid of opponents. At no time is there a likelihood of an aspirant being dispatched to meet St Peter — before time — than during general elections.

The looming 2017 edition is bound to be expensive, competitive and ‘bloody’. The stakes are high, the prize money — and tenders therein - big and reason enough to kill.