

Kenya: Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu Press Statement not impressed by unverified results released by the IEBC (09.08.2017)











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This is worrying when I can get two forms from one Polling Stations. That the counting of the tally from this place seems strange and when both are online. It starts questioning of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), the way the polling station counting shows, that the released numbers come from the Portal, also you can wonder if Declaration Form number 1 or number 2.
There is double results from one Polling Station on the Declaration Form 34(b), this was in the Kiambu County, in the Rurru Constituency and in the Biashara Ward.
Declaration Form 1: One of them the incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta got 485 votes, Rail Odinga got 54, Joseph William Ntahiga Nyagah got 1 vote and Mohammed Abduba Dida got 1 vote. On this form it says a total of 691 votes and a 541 counted.
Declaration Form 2: One the other form incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta got 446, Raila Odinga got 74 and Joseph William Ntahiga Nyagah 1 vote. On this form it says a total of 692 votes and a 521 counted.
This numbers differs and therefore you can question the IEBC and the Presidential race be put into question. If this is one single polling station or on bigger scale. If it is on bigger scale, then it is harder to trust the result. And after such peaceful and positive vibes at the polling stations, except for the areas with rain where people couldn’t vote. There still, has been a good overall feeling from it. Peace.
Form 1:

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Uhuru Kenyatta and his team is working overtime to secure the incumbent and the Jubilee Alliance Party another term on the cost of the National Super Alliance (NASA). This can be said with the messages sent the associates this morning. A group called “Uhuru for Us” send messages on mail or SMS saying:
The title of the Message/Mail is: “Have you voted yet? Stop Raila, Save Kenya!”
“Polling Stations has been open for three hours. Have you casted your ballot yet?”
Later the message says: “If you have, then tell the world that you have voted for Uhuru on Facebook. It will encourage your Facebook friends to go and vote for Uhuru’s re-election too. Raila’s team is reporting a high turnout in their strongholds”. Lastly it says: “This will likely be a very tight election. We need to get as many votes as possible. Help us build momentum for Uhuru by using your own Facebook network”.
The “Uhuru for Us” are asking for campaigning on the election day and that people themselves are using themselves as promotional tools on the final day. This for the incumbent and to make sure their majority by any means. The “Uhuru for Us” want the world see a picture of many Uhuru voters over the concern of Raila’s. So that the belief that Uhuru is winning. This is insane to do this sort of play in the last minute of the election day. However, this proves the extent of play the Jubilee and their associates do to get re-elected this time.
They could have done it with some tact and honesty, had faith in their own achievements, but clearly that is not enough. They need another PR scoop before all the ballots are cast. Peace.



“I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. ” – Martin Luther King Jr.
I hope for the National Super Alliance (NASA), the whole opposition party coalition and the Presidential Candidate Raila Odinga, which he gets his chance to, cross the river Jordan and get into promise land. However, there are obstacles and uncertainty of it. Even if many of the polls on the social media has been in favor and grand studies before the election has given him a majority.
The reasons are that other political dynasty under the KANU/Kikuyu umbrella of Uhuru Kenyatta and his teammate, the former student of Daniel Arap Moi, DP William Ruto will not let this go easy. Even if he speaks of a peaceful transition, the legacy left behind after this of extra-judicial killings and enormous amounts of corruption scandals. Should certainly tarnish the reputation and give way for other type of leadership. Alas, the situation is not that easy.
The naked eye might say NASA should have it coming with their added bedfellows, with their strength in the partnership between the leaders and their front man, while Jubilee has consolidated their parties into one Alliance Party before the elections. Therefore, they are not a coalition, but one single party.
The fear is that Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) through all sorts of manipulations, either technical or personal breaches will make the government win again. That through the forgery of non-internet connections double up voters in Jubilee stronghold and hire someone in the place of deceased Chris Msando to fix the KIEMS system in favor. If all of this true, than it does not matter how someone vote, when the system screws it in favor of one-party and their delegates. Let us hope Kenyatta is a better sport and as honest as he claims to be.
“In 1966, Jomo Kenyatta isolated Oginga Odinga as Kenya‘s Vice President and the Luos have never forgiven the Kikuyu community for that fallout. Ironically, it is Odinga who had held KANU together when Kenyatta was in detention. Odinga even declined to form a government without Kenyatta when the British invited him to do so. The dismissal of Odinga was very Machiavellian in the way it was executed, because Kenyatta basically baited Odinga into resigning from government. He made it very hard for Odinga to function effectively as his principal assistant for Kenyatta was a very cunning politician. Although he rewarded his followers and supporters, he was also very sensitive to those who appeared popular and tried to become independent of him” (Maurice N. Amutabi – ‘Beyond Imperial Presidency in Kenya: Interrogating the Kenyatta, Moi and Kibaki Regimes and Implications for Democracy and Development’ KSR Volume 1, Number 1, December 2009).
I am sure that Raila Odinga remembers the stories from his father and have felt the pain of people dismissing him, as the legacy of KANU, and Kenyatta has followed him; he is the second generation Odinga and the one has been the shadow of the Kenyatta’s. So to this day, he campaigning and steady struggle to become a President. Might finally pay off.
There is still a road ahead, the former Prime Minister, the one who has been so close before and lost to the other dynasty, might reach this time. He might, but the cost and toil to get there must been long. The walking in desert wondering if he comes, if he gets shelter or get support. Even if he has now done so with a group for so long. The NASA and before within CORD.
Odinga has battled and continued, he has been tear-sprayed, his supporters has been detained, his supporters has even died for demonstrating for just causes. While the Jubilee have lingered in power and in secure positions. They have been blasted and warned, they have been scorned and humiliated, but they have continue to pressure on. Not given-in and not given-up. They could have and some might wonder why they did not, that was for the mere fact.
That fact must have been one thing and one thing only, hope. Hope that your turn will come and you will prevail. That one day the Odinga will reach promise land and get the prize to lead and serve the nation at its highest position. We will see what tomorrow bring, if it is rigging, fear of military police and fear of anti-riot police in the streets. If we will see happiness and peace.
We can hope for a new beginning, a new saga and a new story, which entails not the Kenyatta’s, but the Odinga’s. With mere new enforcement and hope for another type of governance. Uhuru Kenyatta has done his mission and done his part, together with William Ruto. Time for new brooms and new whistles to sound.
It should be time for Odinga to cross the river and get into the promised-land, it took so and seemed like it never would happen. Now we can hopefully see it. Peace.

At the High Court in Nairobi on the 5th August 2017, where Okiya Omtatah Okoiti made a case against Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and Attorney General Githu Muigai. The High Court made an important order for the citizens during the elections and to able to follow the counting of the ballots.
The order of Principal Judge Richard Mwongo has ordered on that day: “I declare that there is a legal basis for the establishment of a four hundred metre radius from the centre of a polling station within which persons not involved in the counting of voters may, where necessary at the discretion of the 1st Respondent, (IEBC), not be permitted to be” (High Court, 05.08.2017). So the voters and citizens can stay close to the polling station to make sure the officials and the agents are acting accordingly to protocol. To secure the ballots of the election, so that the voters can stand behind and do their duty as citizens.
Mwongo continues: “I declare, however, that where there are residences or homesteads within the radius of four hundred metres from the centre of the polling station, the presiding officer and police officer at a polling station have no authority to evict, remove or handle the inhabitants and residents thereof in any manner which would keep them out or away from their said residence” (High Court, 05.08.2017). So if someone lives inside a short radius of the polling station, the Police and the security officers cannot banish them. They cannot evict them from their homes as the stages of the polling can be followed by the neighbors of the polling station. So they can be as close as they need to be or want to, as it is nullfied.
The last order of Mwongo: “It is declared that the members of the public shall be afforded access to the counted and signed results either at the entrance to the polling station or at such other place convenient and accessible to the public at the polling station” (High Court, 05.08.2017). So the public should be able to follow the local results from their own station, before the results leave to central or National Talley Centre. Therefore, the locals and the voters of any given polling station can be near to oversee the works of the officials and also the counting. After that they can oversee the declaration forms of the station with the results. As they declare the winner of the place they voted.
This is clearly a victory and gives the public a unique possibility for checks-and-balances. The citizens, the voters and the ones living nearby can monitor and make sure their votes are respected. They can make sure the results are fair and done correctly. This shows the promise of possible transparent election. Where the Security Officers cannot banish and evict people, since they can be waiting for the results and the declarations of the counting. IEBC and the Police has to follow this.
The public needs to know this so they authorities and the government cannot push them away. They can gather around and make sure justice is done to their ballots. Peace.

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