Kenya is currently experiencing political upheavals due to the wish and wants of a few individuals who are power hungry and have insatiable desire to lead.
Insults have been hurled all over and people have been divided along political lines to the extent that opposition supporters made up of Luos, Luhyas, Kambas, people from the Coast and others can barely contain nor dine with those from the Jubilee side made up of mostly Kikuyus and Kalenjins.
In Sierra Leone, a civil war of 11years raptured the country to its knees because of the hunger for power by Charles Taylor with his National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) and the then president Joseph Momoh.
The end result was the massacre of at least 50,000 people and maiming of dozens of others through the chopping off of limbs. Property was also destroyed and the economy crippled.
Kenyans should take a lesson from what Sierra Leone went through. The need to realise that power should not be given much attention is the main lesson from the West African country.
Kenya tasted the consequences of power worship when the country plunged to post-election violence in 2007.
The kind of politics in the country at the moment is just a clear indication of what can transpire in case issues are not solved amicably before 2017.
Power hungry individuals have taken the country into a tug of war and the 'mwananchi' has started to harbour feelings of mistrust towards the neighbours.
This is a replica of the happenings in 2007 and if assumed, then 2017 will stage one of the most serious post-election violences ever witnessed in the country.
Kenyans should acquire the Sierra Leone civil war documentary dubbed 'Cry Freetown' by Sorious Samura and witness the effects of not maintaining peace and tranquility in a nation.