
You know your fishing in troubled waters, when even CNN International Broadcasting News drops and deletes your interview on Youtube. This is a proof of how shambolic the Kenyan Elections are, since the incumbent Deputy President William Ruto had an interview on CNN on Friday to legitimize the Fresh Presidential Elections. This is while the results are far from announced and the numbers was been shredded on the screens in Nairobi. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) have yet to announce the result, but by Friday the verified results we’re already in question. As the boycott all over the country had put down the estimates. That is why the interview was revealing for their will to lie to international legitimacy.
How they are still showing it on the CNN Pages:
“Ruto disputes low Kenya voter turnout figures: Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto says many Kenyans were denied the opportunity to vote due to violence. CNN’s Lynda Kinkade reports.Source: CNN” (CNN, 28.10.2017, link: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/10/28/ruto-disputes-kenya-voting-numbers-kinkade-sot.cnn).
Here is CNN Apology for airing the interview:
CNN chief editor Meredith Artley explained what went wrong: “Our interview with Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto was one of the worst interviews we have ever hosted. The discussion didn’t match our standards. Therefore, our viewers won’t be able to watch it on our youtube channel, we apologize.” she lamented. “Our producer has pulled the whole nonsense down. It was embarrassing to host such character. Once again we are sorry.” she added.
This is what he said during the interview:
“Legitimacy is defined in the constitution as 50% + 1 and 25% in 24 counties. We have surpassed both. We are at 98% and we have 25% in 44 counties” (…) “On matters to do with turnout, it is incorrect for Odinga to say 3.5 million voters. A total of 7.5 million voters voted” (Otinga, 2017).
“You must win 50%… we have already surpassed that threshold… That means that in terms of the constitution, the legitimacy question is already answered… It is incorrect for Mr. Odinga to say that 3.5 million voters turned out. In fact 7.5 million voters turned out… Of course he wants to peddle a narrative that suits his political narrative but the reality is 91% of Kenyans who voted who voted for Uhuru Kenyatta on 8th of August turned up and voted for us on Thursday” (Beverton Mukalo, 2017).
Just to put the numbers and amount of people he said turnout, the latest numbers on Sunday 29th is “237 out of 291 constituencies, Uhuru 6,945,181, Raila 65,598, Turnout 43.39%” (Kenya West on Twitter). Clearly, this is not right amount of numbers. When on Friday the KIEMS had registered about 3,5 million voters. While the IEBC and other has expressed no faith in the KIEMS, then why buy and use them? We know some in Kakamega took the equipment, but that was in one Polling station in a county that voted in and around 5%. Therefore, the numbers the IEBC are coming with is not trustworthy, as also many polling stations and constituency are even having higher turn-up of voters, than the registered voters there.
So there are reason why they pulled it down on Youtube, but it is still up at CNN International Edition. Even if it is filled with lies. The IEBC has worked on the results since the Return Forms was delivered on Thursday, clearly they are struggling to configure the 48% turn-out into the crunched numbers and make sure the paperwork fits the paradigm. If the IEBC was honest, they would know the boycott made the amount of people show-up abysmal.
Therefore, the CNN interview of DP Ruto was the Jubilee trying to legitimizing the polls. However, it was not working. Because as the time is going. The gig is up and the IEBC are working on overtime to fix the results for fitting the narrative the Jubilee needs. Peace.
Reference:
Beverton Mukalo, Shem – ‘Ruto talks to CNN after Odinga interview’ (28.10.2017) link: http://www.hivisasa.com/posts/ruto-talks-to-cnn-after-odinga-interview
Otinga, Rene – ‘Raila’s narrative failed, Kenyans came out to vote –DP Ruto’ (28.10.2017) link: https://www.tuko.co.ke/256135-railas-narrative-failed-kenyans-vote-dp-ruto.html#256135

















