Why August 8th is Kenya's date with destiny.

August 8^th is quickly surging and like many Kenyans, I am waiting with bated breath for the big day.

Often riddled with violence and election malfeasances, poll days are never the best to look forward to and as it stands now, August 8^th may not be an exception.

Granted otherwise, Kenyans will be handed their destiny into their own hands and how they jostle with it, will determine their future which now looks bleak and dim. But if the wave of political maturity that characterized party primaries was anything to go by and not a fluke, then everything is pointing to a right direction.

August polls is going to be a do or die to everyone grappling with the severe economic times, to everyone feeling nauseated with the deep-seated corruption and to everyone feeling the pinch and heft of the runaway unemployment which now stand at 54%. To all these people and indeed all of us, August 8^th shouldn’t be a typical election day and as such should be treated with utmost seriousness it sorely deserve.

The upcoming polls should signify the past days of sheer complacency and ill-formed choices and usher in an era of political maturity and shrewdness. misfortunes.

No amount of money dished out this election period should waver your stand of restoring back sanity and integrity in our country. To restore back our moral fabric, which is now in tatters, we must launch a massive crackdown on rogue leaders come August.

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This is an opportunity we can’t afford to toy with, not again. It is the only future we have left and we should make the best out of it, at least for the posterity.