President Uhuru Kenyatta attends the launch of one of his campaign brigade at State House, Nairobi on October 2, 2017. [Photo: nation.co.ke]Columnist and veteran journalist Macharia Gaitho has lashed out at President Uhuru Kenyatta saying that since his re-election was nullified, he has started to exhibit some dictatorial tendencies.He says Kenya has had to 'endure a mean, angry, vindictive President who will make decisions in fits of anger'.Gaitho argues that the President is contemplating misusing the State security apparatus to persecute political foes, as is being 'proposed by his key advisers, such as Jubilee Party chairman David Murathe, Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko and greenhorn MP Ndindi Nyoro'."It increasingly looks as if the President is warming to the idea of destroying other arms of government, particularly the Judiciary, oversight constitutional commissions and statutory bodies, as well as independent watchdog organs such as civil society and the media," Gaitho writes on Tuesday's Nation.He notes that Jubilee is already 'abusing' its parliamentary majority to unilaterally amend election laws that were the product of a negotiated compromise.Another thing, he says, security agencies look the other way as ethnic vigilante groups, the so-called 'Nairobi Business Community', purports to secure the capital city against opposition demonstrators."We have seen all manner of pro-regime irregulars violently block roads with burning tyres as police look on while opposition marches are met with instant tear gas and truncheons.""The police and lawless Jubilee mobs react fiercely to the infantile rantings of newcomer opposition legislator Babu Owino, who ends up facing ridiculous charges borrowed direct from repressive colonial statutes," Gaitho adds.He further notes that President Kenyatta and DP William Ruto also have a well-documented history of constantly hurling insults at opposition leader Raila Odinga yet act like 'cry-babies' when they face some of the same.Finally, Gaitho says a vernacular radio station associated with the First Family every morning 'spews out violent ethnic bile, as do Jubilee social media warriors'.

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