Going by the current state of political tension in the country, one may agree that former president Daniel Moi was justified in opposing multi-party democracy.
The current leaders have perfected in hatred, suspicion and animosity contrary to the ideals proposed by our founding fathers.
A quick look at the political parties in Kenya paints a fattened picture of tribalism and affiliation based on social stratification.
TNA party is typical to the people from Central region. Wiper party has a massive following in Kibwezi and other scattered towns in Ukambani. ODM party without regard to the lakeside region is nothing. URP's backyard is the Rift Valley. Ford Kenya and ANC have most of their supporters from the Western region. If this is democracy, then I doubt the quality of its dictionary meaning.
During the Kanu era, the country was battling with more reasonable challenges of ignorance, poverty and disease. But with the birth of this thing called multi-party system, Kenya conceived yet another bigger challenge of ethnic politics.
A look at the clashes in 1992 and 2007-078 show how the country chose to pave way for tribalism by divorcing the one-party state.
Moi was even quoted objecting to the initiative, but for the sake of the power-thirsty politicians of the time, he surrendered.
Ethnicity is a viral disease in Kenyan politics and it has no cure. But for the sake of peace, leaders should agree to disagree with political perpetrators of tribalism.