The onset and offset of elections in Kenya is usually characterized by high political heat. The heat escalates to the point where people take up on the streets. The results of those picketing always end up being violent.
People destroy properties, burn down any property that belongs to their political foes. This force the police to come out in large numbers to disperse the angry mobs. Often these attempts by police to restore order have been hundred percent peaceful. People are killed using live bullets, others left nursing very serious injuries.
But the situation right now in the Democratic Republic of Congo is more than what we witness in the country. The situation is getting worse, war and rebellion escalating each and every day as the country counts days to elections.
The elections materials and the centers have been sent on fire. Not just an ordinary fire but huge fire burning even a number of vehicles that were around the place where the elections materials were stored.
https://twitter.com/TRTWorldNow/status/1073165717258743808
Despite the burning of the voting machinery the Electoral Commission of DRC has insisted that the country is in a stable state to host the elections.
Campaigning over the past three weeks for the long-delayed Dec. 23 election has been mostly peaceful, but the flare-ups in the southeastern Katanga region have raised concerns about a repeat of the violence that plagued the 2006 and 2011 votes.
Police in the town of Kalemie blocked the convoy of vehicles transporting Fayulu to a rally and started shooting into the air, said David Ngoy Luhaka, a priest and member of the Diocesan Commission for Justice and Peace.
HERE IS THE VIDEO OF THE BURNING OF ELECTION MACHINERY IN CONGO
Voting machines in DR Congo destroyed in a fire 10 days to presidential poll, electoral commission says voting will not be disrupted. pic.twitter.com/7D5qnA6m2m
— Ali 'Mwamvita' Manzu (@Ali_Manzu) December 13, 2018
Why do Africans elections just have to be violent? What is the cause of fights and wild rebellions?