CONFLICT EARLY WARNING EARLY RESPONSE (EWER) REPORT SCENARIO BUILDING REPORT 26.4.2024
KEY SCENARIOS
- Youth resolve to protest and don’t go to state house –
- Police will still kill the demonstrators
- Government will instruct county security teams to arrest protesters and arraign them in court
- More abductions will be reported
- Dialogue starts with state friendly youth leaders
- GenZ refuses to dialogue with government
WHAT IS TO BE DONE
- Remobilization for dialogues nationally and at local level
- President sacks his cabinet to save face
- Politicians tone down their rhetoric and apologize
- Peace building stakeholders mobilise resources for peace building targeting youth
- Policy and legislative spaces
- Court ruling to stop government from deploying KDF to interfere with internal conflicts
- Parliament is convened – but MPs don’t attend what is the quorum
- Parliament is convened they follow president’s referral and directive and reject the bill – government will find other means to increase costs e.g. fuel costs that will continue to trigger costs of living.
- KDF rejects government call for deployment and advice police continue to deal with the situation
WHAT MAY HAPPEN
- Judiciary rules against deployment of KDF but ruling is ignored – more violence
- MPs get targeted and their private businesses attacked
- Violence to continue
- Peace messaging to continue
- Religious leaders and diplomatic missions push for restraint and for talks.
3. Demonstrators resolve to ‘occupy state house’
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- Police kill demonstrators
- Government strategic buildings are destroyed all over the country
- Private businesses vandalized
- Criminals attack citizens to take advantage of lawlessness
4. Youth led protests stop for dialogue
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- Immediate ceasefire
- Dialogues organized
- President takes action on corruption in his cabinet
- President sacks entire cabinet
5. President concedes and resigns
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- Crisis on immediate take over
- More deaths of civilians
- International interventions.
- Peace missions deployed
- The IEBC is still dysfunctional causing a further crisis.