By Toni Kamau, producer for HATUA Season 3
Once again its election season and Kenya is infected with political fever as temperatures are running high and the political euphoria is spread across the nation, but with this comes some negativity. The reason I say this is, I like many have been on the receiving end of a huge amount of unsolicited hate mail, most of it anti-ODM.
From the tone of these letters it would be safe to assume that the writers fall in the camp of other parties' supporters, what they fail to realize is they are not doing their cause any justice by spurning out hate mail like it's going out of fashion.
Some people would prefer to call it propaganda but let's just call a bad hair day what it is and not an unconventional hairstyle. The claims that Raila is capable of starting ethnic clashes, or that he is a eunuch (this is the most creative allegation I've heard so far) and that he will hand over Kenya to the Muslim community, by allowing them to turn our beloved country into a Muslim state. This is crossing the line that separates 'decent' political mud slinging from dangerous hate campaigns. Does anyone remember Rwanda?
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Once again its election season and Kenya is infected with political fever as temperatures are running high and the political euphoria is spread across the nation, but with this comes some negativity. The reason I say this is, I like many have been on the receiving end of a huge amount of unsolicited hate mail, most of it anti-ODM.
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