[Kanyiri Wahito, Standard]The Fourth Protocol, a work offiction by Frederick Forsyth, kicks off with a covert Soviet plot to manipulate British politics ahead of a general election. The plan, had it succeeded, was designed to drive ODM diehards and sympathisers to UDA. Forsyth makes us understand that among the gravest threats to a democracy are institutional negligence, and political opportunism. That is when political players get into an election mode and polarise the country through inflammatory, ethnicised empty rhetoric. Political parties on the other hand, must abandon the ruinous tendency to invoke foreign conspiracies every time their internal contradictions overwhelm them.

Source: Standard Digital March 02, 2026 21:00 UTC