President Uhuru Kenyatta receives the symbolic sword of power from outgoing president Mwai Kibaki after he was sworn into office on April 9, 2013. [Photo: pri.org]A lot of stuff happening now should be seen within the context of the State trying to create an atmosphere of fear ahead of the repeat presidential poll.Political analyst Barrack Muluka has said that what Kenya is experiencing at the moment is just a precursor of the kind of things to expect during Uhuru's second and last term at the presidency."When you hear Jubilee vice-chairman David Murathe say after the poll President Uhuru Kenyatta is going to be more brutal, ruthless and lethal, that is just the curtain raiser," Muluka says in an opinion piece published by the Star on Tuesday."We are seeing the police killings, some people have been choreographed to say that NASA flagbearer Raila Odinga and his running mate should be taken to the ICC, police raids on citizens like Jimmy Wanjigi, all these things are curtain raisers to people being intimidated. The IEBC and Jubilee who are essentially on two sides of the same coin will treat Kenyans to some kind of election and Uhuru will be declared the winner," adds the pro-NASA analyst.Muluka then goes on to warn that after Uhuru's October 26 'victory', it will be a 'total clampdown on any dissenting voice and anybody who seems to be even remotely associated with sponsoring NASA'.He says that 'we are actually seeing darkness at midday in Kenya' because the culture of intimidation has come back and it is going to be on the rise in the near future.Having said that, Muluka then advises Kenyans to 'begin pressing up for very hard times as the opposition is not just going to stop because Uhuru has been declared President and inaugurated'."The business community that is complaining had better talk to Uhuru and Jubilee and the IEBC because it is going to be impossible for the opposition to live through another five years of a Presidency that has ascended to power in a controversial manner," Muluka who is now the Amani National Congress secretary general asserts.

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