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Elections are just a ritual of passing on the graft baton

Burundi's new President Evariste Ndayishimiye delivers his speech during the national funeral of late Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza, who died at the age of 55, at the Ingoma stadium in Gitega, Burundi, on June 26, 2020. PHOTO | TCHANDROU NITANGA | AFP

By  Tee Ngugi

Columnist

Nairobi-based political and social commentator

Burundi has just concluded a presidential election. The new man at the helm has vowed to continue in the ‘Nyayo’ of his predecessor.

In Kenya we know much about that concept. We fell from Jomo Kenyatta’s despotic rule into Daniel Moi‘s dictatorship.

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