Former President Mwai Kibaki will never be at ease for violating a Memorandum of Understanding he signed with opposition chief Raila Odinga in 2002, a political analyst has said.
According to Herman Manyora who is a lecturer of Political Science at the University of Nairobi, should Kibaki have honoured the MoU and supported Raila's bid to succeed him in 2013, tribalism which is a major challenge in Kenya would now be a thing of the past.
"You cannot fix the politics without addressing the issue of how do we move away from this cycle of every five years of an election there is violence," he said in an interview with NTV On Monday.
"Every five years of an election, there is violence, there is the talk of election rigging, one side does not want to recognise the winner."
Manyora said unless Kenyans re-engineer their politics and embrace one another, the country will never move forward in development.
"2022 is the right time to do that. Kibaki missed it in 2002 when he betrayed the nation and a whole generation," he said.
"If Kibaki had honoured that MoU, tribalism in this country would have completely been fixed to the highest possible level. 2022 is an opportunity for Kenyans to find a way to play this thing. Nobody should say he is owed the presidency, nobody should claim it. Let's just fix it in a way that after 2022, politics is okay and everything else will follow."