By Dr Paul Bundi Human beings are endowed with remarkable resilience, which can only be broken when they choose to give up. Says Viktor Frankl in his seminal book, Man's Search for Meaning; ''it is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future-sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in thd most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.'' Man's life is primarily driven by the desire for future, the unshakable belief that the future holds promise. We invariably cease to live when we think we have hit a dead end, or that there's nothing more to be had by living. Theoretically, there is no limit to man's achievement, and that is what drives men to wake up and strive day after day. The opposite is spiritual, psychological death, which manifests way ahead of physical death. Lesson? Losing today doesn't mean losing always. You can lose 10 times and win the 11th time. Or, you
The opposition coalition,CORD is calling for removal of current iebc commissioners on claims that, they rigged in the ruling jubilee coalition headed by uhuru kenyatta.whether the commisioners will be removed from office or not, only time will tell.What matters more is how can kenya have a free and fair elections in future to avoid re-occurence of post election violence like one which was exprienced in 2007.The history of kenya's general elections shows that it will matters less on who will be heading the electral body but but how much will be invested to achieve a secure,tamper proof votes results transmission system,which is supposed to transmit results directly from polling stations to national tallying centre in case of presidential vote.Unless this is achieved rigging will forever remain as results will only be doctored at different level before they find there way to the national tallying centre, as it has happened before.Thats why disbandment of Iebc will only improve public confidence but won't avoid rigging.
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