Kenyan nationals living in Torit joined in the feast to celebrate a successful peaceful election with Uhuru Kenyatta emerging the winner in a tightly political contest.
Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission announced that Mr Kenyatta won the ballot with just over 50 percent of the vote.The TV announcement sparked wild ululations cross rest joints in Torit that were congested with Kenyan nationals, Radio Emmanuel reported.
A section of Kenyans expressed joy for the peaceful election exercise.
They said they hoped harmony would continue between winners and losers’ supporters after the elections were over.
Kenya’s peaceful elections are also a lesson to the neighbouring countries, including South Sudan that prepares to go to the polls in 2015.
Some South Sudanese nationals were divided about the type of politics practiced in Kenya.
Others suggest that South Sudan could pick good lessons from Kenya’s peaceful elections while one respondent said Kenyan politics were tribal.
Kenya’s latest elections contrasted with the polls of 2007 where post-vote violence killed over 1,200 people and displaced some 600,000.
President-elect Kenyatta and his running mate are to be tried by the International Criminal Court for crimes connected with violence that followed the 2007 election.