IEBC Letter to the Jubilee Party: “Re: The Unveiled Election Project Team” (06.09.2017)

Jubilee Party letter to IEBC: “Ref: The Unveiled Election Project Team” (06.09.2017)

The Kenya Gazette – “Notice of Fresh Presidential Election” (05.09.2017)

Opinion: Kenyatta is officially the most bitter-man in Kenya!

The Supreme Court ruling on the 1st September 2017, that nullified the Presidential Election on the 8th August of 2017. Therefore, the incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Jubilee Party feels betrayed by the judicial system. Clearly, the President and his clientele wanted the algorithm and the counting to be validated. The incumbent and his party are hurt by the Supreme Court and their judgment. This has killed off the easy way to second term. That is why he is pissed. He cannot manage that the Courts took away his power and suspended it.

President Kenyatta should buckle-up, be man and take the slap on his face. Not that he can carry that or have the wisdom to do so. Uhuru has sound like and act like a spoiled brat. Instead of showing courtesy to the Kenyan people and their institutions. For someone who has been in-charge, he has little respect for the government institutions and their statutes. Kenyatta, should have more respect for judicial institution, as he has been leading the Parliament, the lawmaking institution and the ones making the provisions for the courts. Take a look!

Kenyatta at a Rally this Tuesday:

I am angry because I was wronged. They wrongfully overturned my victory. We should tell the truth” (…) “We won fair and square. We won by over 1.4 million votes, but the court decided to deny us our victory. We are more than ready for the fresh elections” (…) “It would be easier, but they chose a free election. This is tantamount to denying rights to over 15 million voters who participated in the August’s poll” (…) “Raila is simply inciting the Kisiis by misleading them that I’m blaming the CJ simply because he’s a Kisii. I am just expressing my opinion” (…) “They should leave me alone. When he criticised Matiang’i (for deploying police to maintain order after poll), didn’t he know he is a Kisii?” (Mwere, 2017).

Let’s be clear, Mr. President, you we’re not wronged by the Supreme Court. Kenyatta would by that accord have no issues a theft of an election. The Incumbent would have no problem with the rigging and the non-existence documentation of the voting. This was all put forward as the provisions for election was breached. That should worry the President, that would have been ruling without legitimacy. Clearly, the truth isn’t beautiful, it is rigging like it was a sport. The victory would be false start and also a thieving.

That the President feels so betrayed and angry, but he shouldn’t be mad at the Supreme Court. Instead, he should be mad at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) for their lack of electoral procedure. If they had been up to par and, if they had followed standards of electoral codes and provisions. He could have been the President, Kenyatta could have, but because the 8th August counting and announcing the results. The IEBC should have been correct in their acts of electoral work.

The President shouldn’t continue to name-call and be so bitter. He should buckle-up and become a man. By now, the world will know, that the incumbent are the most bitter man in Kenya. He should feel so, especially considering Kibaki’s party Party of National Unity (PNU), recently joined the NASA coalition after the ruling. Peace.

Reference:

Mwere, David – ‘Uhuru Kenyatta: I’ve a right to criticise CJ David Maraga’ (05.09.2017) link: http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Uhuru-Kenyatta-criticises-CJ-David-Maraga/1056-4083844-pndyk0/index.html

IEBC Press Statement on the Secretariat for the #FreshElections (05.09.2017)

NASA Letter to IEBC: “RE: Fresh Presidential Elections” (05.09.2017)

NASA Statement: “Welcome H.E. Peter Munya and PNU to NASA” (04.09.2017)

#FreshElections: The IEBC is shooting itself in the foot with the double candidacy (Kenyatta Vs. Odinga) before starting the fresh election preparation for October 17th!

The breaking news is that Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) after the Supreme Court ruling had to within 60 days to hold new fresh elections. Since the first election were officially seen as nullified, however, the election will get a rocky road as the only candidates on the ballot is incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta of the Jubilee Party and opposition leader Raila Odinga from the National Super Alliance (NASA). Therefore, the elections hold on 8th August 2017, will now get the new date of 17th October 2017.

This will not look or be seen as good. The elections race will be a troublesome affair for the IEBC, who has done nothing to change their decapitated reputation, as their records are not anew or trustworthy. The IEBC has to show every motion and tender, every single step of the way, since the IEBC did a shoddy job this August and their rigging was without boundaries. Their servers could be rigged by some hippos or be shot to pieces right now in Kisimayo, Somalia as the Kenya Defense Forces donated them there. For all we know, that could be where the first evidence landed.

Now the IEBC has taken away to the options for Presidency, is Mohamed Abduba Dida, John Ekuru Longoggy Aukot, Shakhalaga Khwa Jirongo, Japhet Kavinga Kaluyu, Michael Wainaina Mwaura and Joseph William Nthiga Nyagah. All of these options has disappeared as it concerns for the IEBC. They do not matter, the Thirdway Alliance candidate Ekuru Aukot just put into the immortal dustbin as well as all the other independent candidates. They do not matter, their role is outplayed and the IEBC has enough on their schedule to have further candidates to keep on their tally.

The IEBC really wants to piss people off, and make the ones who supports these men furious. Not that they are in the same league as Odinga or Kenyatta, but honestly, the IEBC should follow protocol and give the men a second chance. Not just the ones who filled the petition. This all followed the 204th Plenary meeting in the IEBC, but it cannot been wise, it can only been hasty.

Since they give themselves no time for checks and balances, they give no time to fix and amend the structures and no, but none truth telling. They are planning to wing-it and spin-control it into oblivion. The servers, the ICT management, the ballot-tenders, the training of Returning Officers, the update of trustworthy personnel and leadership, will not have the time before the storm settling in. The IEBC will only manage similar transactions and more of the same. If there will be another computer generate President, rest assure that is possible. Since the structure and leadership is pretty much the same. Nothing new and no fresh start. Just the same old same old.

IEBC to this, to cut off participants, to abolish their place and the placement on the ballot is striking. It is insulting. No matter how big of a deal they are. Since they was there in August and should be there in October. Will the ballots be too big and the names too hard to read? What is the justification for the sudden approach, other than lazy civil servants at the IEBC headquarters at the Anniversary Tower in Nairobi.

Lord have Mercy, this cannot end well, and they will just rehash the same ideas and hope it lands on fertile land. Therefore, the soil can produce some healthy crops, but it is done without any time for consultation or advice. Certainly, the land will be spoiled and the task is massive. We can only see the headlines and the Chernobyl of wasteland. Since, the IEBC wants to again, try in secrecy and with haste, without any change of plans. They speak of revising, but how much can you revise in little of 30 days, when you have the same squad at hand; not much since they want to work the same and do the same, same same but no difference. Peace.

Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu Press Statement after the Supreme Court Ruiling (04.09.2017)

My letter to the two heads of Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, Mr Chiloba and Mr. Chebukati: “this is the time to put everything and everyone on the boulevard”

2. September 2017, Oslo.

Dear Sirs!

If you wonder. This is directed to Ezra Chiloba and Wanyonyi Wafula Chebukati, you two has now 60 days to envision and find ways to make new presidential polls, get new tenders for ballots and make sure the Electronic Devises are trustworthy, even if the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has now a shattered reputation. The IEBC Secretariat, you has a long commute to make the resident and citizens trusting you. That is why I write to you. Not that I expect you to read me piece of letter, but still I have to write you.

First, thing first. Both of you Honourable Chiloba and Chebukati, your own facade is not trustworthy now. The way you publicly has addressed the recent election has been unfaithful. The reality is that you should ask for their trust and act as servants. Right now you are acting as you own Kenya, while you don’t. You are appointed in favor of the people of Kenya, not to solicit funds from Kenyans. Therefore, time for you step of your responsibility, as you are the facilitators for holding elections and following the laws, the Constitution and the codes of law. This shouldn’t be rocket science, but NASA and Jubilee, needs you to deliver.

Secondly, as fellow civil servants, as the IEBC, you need to be transparent with every single move you do. Not just create bots who make the decisions and make the counting of the votes. Not only have one brother uploading 9,000 declarations forms, but actually have the servers, the contracts and the connections of all Electoral Material and ICT Management in public display. So that the public can trust your acts. There been enough skeletons in the closet, to make Eminem make another hit song. Time to wise up, and step away from the Wise-Guys, but actually acts like civil servants.

Thirdly, time to actually follow procedure, follow protocol, prove that you two are worth a damn. That your salary paid on the taxes and provisions of the state is worth it. Actually, that the IEBC follow procurement laws and estimates, that the IEBC do due diligence on their contracts and their services. Also, that the IEBC shows the steps of forms and the transmission of declarations forms. So that, this cannot be put in question.

Fourth, that all that work in the thousands of polling stations are well-trained, has the knowledge of needed acts of securing the ballots and honoring the ballots. That the state and the other campaigns are respecting the rule of law. That the ones who tries to stuff boxes, steal sheets and rewrite forms get taken to justice, to not tamper with the will of the Kenyan people.

This is why I have wrote to you Chiloba and Chebukati, since you are in charge of this ship. You have to make the ship ready for the rough sea, for storms, winds and waves. But to show that the people have faith you can steer the ship to shore, in all pieces and with the load. So that the ship can continue to the next destination after you disembark.

This is not the time to silently prepare for another election, this is the time to put everything and everyone on the boulevard, to build trust and show that your worth a damn. Unless, you want to trigger another speculation, try to figure another way of rigging the public will. But if you do so, then you will not be independent minded, but be bribed civil servants with no honor or code. You are just stooges, who is bought as easily as a chapati. I hope you are better, but time will tell. Peace.

Best regard

Writer of Minbane