GUSII POLITICS How big is Gusii in the political geography of Kenya? How voluminous is Gusii in terms of decision making in the Kenyan politics? How predictable are the voting patterns of the Gusii people? How dear are the Gusii people to the government? These are hard questions, right? You need a sack of groundnuts to ponder them... Believe me. Gusii politics have gone through a rough system of maturity for many decades, to where they are currently. The landslide has been definitely brought by education, civilisation, democratic growth, population growth, benchmarking, among other issues. For instance, political lords of the days before, were known to use tricks as a means of influence to lure voters. A story is told, of how the late George Anyona beat the late Makone Ombese by telling the public to mark X against his (Anyona) name if they were against him. By doing so, they overwhelmingly voted for him and saw him to parliament. Another story is told in the Nyaribari arena, where the
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