The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has announced that he repeat presidential election will be held on October 17th.
In a statement, Electoral Commission chairperson Wafula Chebukati further said that there will be no fresh nomination for Presidential candidates.
Chebukati, however, said only National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga and Jubilee’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, and their running mates, will be allowed to participate in the fresh poll. Raila’s running mate is Kalonzo Musyoka while William Ruto will run alongside Uhuru Kenyatta. This means that the other six candidates in the August 8th election including Ekuru Aukot (Thirdway Alliance, Abduba Dida (Tunza coalition), Cyris Jirongo, and Independent candidates Joe Nyaga, Prof Michael Wainaina and Japheth Kaluyu will be locked out of the repeat poll.
Chebukati said IEBC is still deliberating on certain issues touching the repeat poll and details will be provided to stakeholders later. “The commission is revising the operational and procedural requirements for the conduct of the fresh election and will share details with stakeholders sooner than later,” Chebukati said.
IEBC has also asked the Supreme Court judges to speedily make available the full ruling on so as the commission can identify areas that require improvement in the management of the repeat elections.
The Supreme Court led by Chief Justice David Maraga invalidated President Uhuru Kenyatta’s August 8 win and ordered fresh election be held within 60 days.
40 days to get this done …
40 days to get this done … with all the lawsuits and petitions coming up … some serious magic or miracle is needed …
Awesome! The country can…
Awesome! The country can move on quickly!
Iam troubled by chebukati’s…
Iam troubled by chebukati’s statement”…supreme court Judges to speedily make available the full ruling…so that the commission can identify areas that require improvement…”By now certainly the IEBC know their short comings and should not wait for the supreme court to tell them. The supreme court should only affirm,or point out their deficiencies if a case is brought to them.More over, the IEBC was accused of not following the election procedures as laid out in law.Go back and see where you circumvented the law,and avoid doing same for the repeat poll,that’s all.Should not be difficult abiding by the election laws,unless you are under the gun by some forces,or you are grossly incompetent,which I highly doubt.
@Maxiley: I think Chebukati…
@Maxiley: I think Chebukati is right. The full opinions of the judges will be release within 21 days. All they released were summary judgements.
Sokora,Iam only questioning…
Sokora,Iam only questioning the areas he says need improvement. Is this an admission that something is “wrong”. I was under the impression that IEBC is independent.Besides that chebukati himself said that there was nothing wrong with the process…
Look, if Chebukati said…
Look, if Chebukati said there was nothing wrong, all the more reason he needs the wise full ruling of the court to help him see the errors committed and correct them. Does that make sense?
But these errors were point…
But these errors were point to him before the supreme court did. He either does not acknowledge that there are errors or he is pretty incompetent. Anyway, this is now water under the bridge. Apparently he has hired 6 to his staff.He probably fired those he thought where aprobem.
But these errors were point…
But these errors were point to him before the supreme court did. He either does not acknowledge that there are errors or he is pretty incompetent. Anyway, this is now water under the bridge. Apparently he has hired 6 to his staff.He probably fired those he thought where aprobem.
Chairman, It is important…
Chairman, It is important that IEBC gets full ruling; however making the ruling a basis of your patchwork is playing into the hands of your detractors. You need to up the game far and beyond within the law to achieve IEBC mandate. I have come to learn that saying “there is no time” is no defense actually it induces suspicion.
Not the incompetent IEBC…
Not the incompetent IEBC again! Read the list below of people the IEBC cleared in the past to run for public office who have plenty of skeletons in their closets:
anonymous
Sun, 09/03/2017 – 06:26
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In all future elections, the Supreme Court of Kenya should clear all candidates seeking elective office. Why? See the list of people cleared by the current corrupt “IEBC!” who were elected! The following people should not have been cleared because of they shady past:-
1. Hassan Ali Joho
2. Anne Mumbi Waiguru
3. Samoei Chirchir Ruto
4. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta
5. Samuel Mbuvi Sonko
6. Moses Wetangula
7. Moses Kuria
8. Charity Ngilu
9. Babu Awino
10 Ferdinand Waititu
11 Attorney at Law Orengo
How about those who could have been elected but did not make it.
1. Raila Amollo Odinga
2. Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi
3. Martha Karua
4. Kalonzo Musyoka
5. Former governor of Nairobi – Kidero
6. Former mayor of Nairobi – Aladwa
7. Moses Akaranga
I have complete confidence in the great works the current supreme court is doing. In order to return to normalcy, we should empower the supreme court of Kenya to clear any potential candidate to run for public office.
The current attorney general of Kenya, the head of the CID, and the head of the police should be fired for their gross incompetence. 28 people were killed after the last election, how come no one has been arrested and interrogated for the unnecessary loss of lives? What about the ten year old girl shot by the police!
How come the people who killed Jacob Juma and Chris Msando have not yet been arrested? We all saw Moses Kuria standing next to Msando’s vehicle making sarcastic remarks about him. How come he has not been arrested and asked to tell the people of Kenya what he knows about the death of Msando?
Imara demon
Imara demon
One more thing, allowing…
One more thing, allowing only 2 candidates? big mistake! these other candidates will wait around the corner and challenge the rerun. The flaw in interpretation of 2013 case to bar the candidates; will be exploited one way or another. Take nothing for granted, let them join the race.
One day @ atime, I agree…
One day @ atime, I agree with you that the other candidates should be allowed to run as well.The well has already been poisoned, we may want someone else apart from the two.This is not arun-off so I actually dont see why they are not allowed.Does any one have a good reason for this?
NASA 21 STEPS TO INVALIDATE…
NASA 21 STEPS TO INVALIDATE POLL AND ENTER FAKE CANAAN
EUREKA! WE FOUND IT. HERE IS WHAT NASA DID TO INVALIDATE ELECTIONS:
1. NASA knew they do not have votes to beat Jubilee but they have the mischief. They had no Tyranny of numbers but they could muster the tyranny of lies, mischief and propaganda. They wanted to get the ballot printing tender so they could get extra ballots and extra forms 34 A, B and C for false result claims in their strongholds
2. When they failed to get the tender, they went to court and insisted that the constituency should be the point of final results declaration. The judgement was thus granted
3. NASA knew they had no votes to beat Jubilee but they could spoil the polls
4. At the polling stations they could not bring fake forms because there was more scrutiny
5. So they printed fake forms 34Bs distributed to as many NASA-friendly Constituency returning officers in NASA STRONGHOLDS like Joho’s Mombasa county and Luoland. At the constituency level Jubilee agents in NASA strongholds were either absent, not keen to note fake Form 34 Bs being introduced or they were knowingly being NASA moles pretending to be Jubilee agents
6. The returning officers who were pro-NASA deliberately used the wrong forms 34B to collate the results from polling stations. They also deliberately entered as many errors as they could.
7. The voting was done okay in most polling stations and the results transmitted directly to the National Tallying Center and Constituency tallying centers.
8. IEBC had initially said they would not stream provisional results as per the court rulings. But under pressure and to avoid allegations of cooking results for being silent, they promised to show streaming results as updated every 3 hours.
9. That did not allow enough time for form 34Bs to come in so IEBC could scrutinize them and notice that in NASA strongholds, fake Forms 34Bs had been introduced.
10. In the meantime, NASA started or rather continued making noise about IEBC and how results were coming in when it was obvious that Jubilee was winning
11. NASA agents some of them overseas tried to hack into the IEBC servers. NASA also had moles within IEBC IT department where they deliberately interfered with the servers and data to create false evidence of results manipulation.
12. Observers and everybody noticed and agreed that things had gone well at polling stations. But at Constituency Tallying Centers there was less observers to note what in NASA strongholds was going on with form 34Bs. At Constituency and County level also, Jubilee candidates agents focused on MP, MCA, Senator and Governor results tallying and those were correct as announced.
13. The results continued coming to IEBC and IEBC was under pressure to finish up the collation of Forms 34 Bs to generate Forms 34 C. Remember as per Court orders IEBC Chebukati was denied power to change anything coming from Constituency Tallying Centers
14. IEBC and Chebukati did the right thing and correctly tallied the submitted results, then announced the winner legally and correctly.
15. NASA made noise as expected. Then pretended they would not go to court to fool Jubilee into relaxation while NASA agents and lawyers worked 24/7 to gather the many fake forms their agents (as Returning Officers) had knowing submitted to IEBC
16. NASA has over the years quietly taken over the judiciary using their friendly judges and many clerical moles. They also managed to push many of their sympathizer judges to enter the Supreme Court after three positions became vacant.
17. After results were announced and widely accepted NASA tried the violence card but it failed to catch on. The “peoples’ court” was touted but soon fizzled out.
18. They tried to use the foot soldiers (NGOS like Africog) to go to court but the move was thwarted.
19. Then in a last-minute surprise move NASA went to court filed the petition and piled external pressure on the judges to believe the fabricated allegations and false evidence and “this time around” redeem the supreme court image
20. Jubilee and IEBC lawyers did a gallant job as admitted by even Justice Ojwang. But lazy computer illiterate, false religious David Maraga along-side Kalonzo leaning Philomena Muilu, Wetangula and Mudavadi leaning Smokin Wanjala and one erratic self-impressing judge Leanola accepted the NASA lawyers’ propaganda and without an iota of evidence or sound legal reasoning and realistic and patriotic consideration of country THE INEPT JUDGES INVALIDATED THE OTHERWISE CREDIBLE ELECTIONS in a move that surprised millions and threw Kenya into turmoil.
21. Now NASA is working mischievously harder to create a constitutional crisis and force NUSU mkate fake Canaan. If Jubilee and IEBC and every Jubilee supporters doesn’t watch out and speak out, the repeat elections will be spoilt by NASA to create another claim of illegitimacy and throw the country into turmoil until mkate nusu comes through. IEBC please ensure no fake FORMs 34 Bs are submitted from NASA strongholds again!
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