Thousands of congratulatory messages have been streaming in from every corner for having held a peaceful election.Kenya and Kenyans at that were keen on re-branding the country after the skirmishes that rocked the country in 2007/2008.
Every person hailed the country but while this was going on,hatred was taking a whole new direction.An estimated 6 million Kenyans have access to the internet with the most popular sites are Facebook and twitter.Political discussions were trending with each and every turn of event and opposing camps took it upon themselves to show their (dis)satisfaction.
Name calling and brutality,psychological wars and emotional tear-downs are still rife in the internet today.Local TV station NTV aired a segment in there news about this new trend. it was an eye opener for most people,both victims and perpetrators of the hatred that they are doing the country as much injustice as killing each other on the streets.
Authorities have established that they will conduct a hunt of those involved and align them in court.Maybe now people will be more careful about what they post when they sit down on their keyboards.
FILE - In this Wednesday, March 6, 2013 file photo, a man standing near to pro-peace graffiti checks his mobile phone in Kibera, Africa's largest slum, in Nairobi, Kenya. Tribal lines are being drawn over who won Kenya's presidential election and unlike the bloody violence that scarred the country five years ago, this time the only fighting is online. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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