When we ignored telling warning of the devil and paid with rivers of blood

Ms Priscillah Wangui, an integrated IDP who was among 400 others who camped outside Ruring'u stadium main gate celebrates after she received Sh200,000 compensation from the government on November 3, 2015. 88 IDPs received the compensation to help them purchase land and move from the camp. [File, Standard]

Months to the 2007 General Election, security agents and the media could smell violence. Rogue politicians had sounded drums of war with inciting slogans. Amazingly, no action was taken to pre-empt the catastrophe that led to about 1,500 deaths, destruction of property and reversal of economic growth from a record 7 per cent to negative 0.3.

I start with recap of an incident last week. Early the dawn of Tuesday, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i had to cancel his morning engagements and fly to Molo in Nakuru where goons razed the home of Chief Mwangi Kiiru.