In an article on the New York Review of Books, Author Helen Epstein articulated how the American government played an active role in ensuring the August elections went in favour of President Kenyatta.
“A far more troubling possibility is that the US wants Kenyatta to remain in power, at the expense of democracy,” she opined in the piece titled The Election and the Cover-up.
According to the American writer, the US government was rooting for Uhuru as he had aligned the country’s military to the US policy.
“Uhuru has aligned Kenya with US policy by, for example, deploying Kenyan forces in AMISOM, the US and the UK-supported African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia,” she stated.
A move that Raila Odinga was greatly opposed to and had even vowed to withdraw the troops within 90 days of his presidency if elected.
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