delay the polls.

Earlier this month, Human Rights Watch said it had received reports of threats and voter intimidation in Naivasha, a flashpoint town in 2007 and one of the potential hotspots in this year's election.

In the Rift Valley, hate speech flyers have been circulating and some local residents have already left their homes.

Gideon Moi, son of former president Daniel arap Moi and an influential senator from the Rift Valley, released a statement calling Saturday's assault "shocking and worrying."

"Kenyans at this moment want to peacefully participate democratically in electing their leaders and no criminal element or group should be allowed to jeopardise peace at this critical time," Moi said.

The 2007 bloodshed haunted both Ruto and Kenyatta long after it ended, when the International Criminal Court put both on trialnation in various fields of human endeavour, which is united, harmonious, democratic, progressive and prosperous, with rule of law, good governance, public integrity and economic well-being for her citizens.

Some five months have passed since then. Can the Pakatan Harapan Government, made up of PKR, DAP, Bersatu and AMANAH, led by a 93-year-old Malaysian politician who had been Prime Minister and UMNO President for 22 years from 1981-2003, succeed in building a New Malaysia?

What are the stresses and strains, the perils and pitfalls, of such an endeavour?

Lim Kit Siang, an 11-term Malaysian Member of Parliament from 1969 (except for the term 1999-2004) from Democratic Action Party (DAP), one of the four component parties of Pakatan Harapan, will discuss the challenges of building a New Malaysia.