Uhuru, Ruto respond to Cord poll petition

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President elect Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto have both filed responses to a petition by the Cord coalition challenging the outcome of the March 4 general elections.
In his response, the President elect has said the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission conduct a free and fair poll stating that he beat Cord’s presidential candidate Raila Odinga fairly.
He said the difference of more than 800,000 votes between himself and the runner’s up Raila in the Presidential poll is “wholly significant” and clearly demonstrates the will of the Kenyan people.
He added that numerous observers gave the process a clean bill of health stating that petitioners have “exaggerated facts and peddled outright falsehood” to invalidate the elections.
Ruto in his petition has also stated that the IEBC conducted a transparent election and the results reflected the will of the people.
He said Cord’s allegations are devoid of any proof and are a result of the petitioner’s “bitterness” arising from the loss. He stated that the petition has no legal basis.
The Cord coalition has filed a petition challenging the election of Jubilee alliance’s Uhuru Kenyatta as the president of Kenya. IEBC chair Isaack Hassan who declared the result on March 9 filed his response to the petition earlier this morning. Hassan said Cord has failed to provide enough evidence to make the Supreme Court invalidate the result of the elections.

Uhuru, Ruto respond to Cord poll petition | The Star

 

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Cord wait for 2018 election

 

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In his response to Odinga's petition, Kenyatta maintains that the election was credible according to standards established by law/FILE

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NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 20 – President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta has asked the Supreme Court to throw out a petition filed by his challenger Raila Odinga, saying the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) conducted the March 4 General Election in a free and fair manner.In his response to Odinga's petition, Kenyatta maintains that the election was credible according to standards established by law.

Through lawyers Fred Ngatia and Kennedy Ogetto, the president-elect is urging the court to dismiss the petition filed by Odinga because it is "baseless and lacks merit."

Kenyatta in a 17-point executive summary pointed out that electronic systems in the conduct of elections have failed elsewhere including Ghana in 2012 and in the United States in 2000, and Kenya was not an exception.

He said that IEBC had done everything possible to ensure that the voting method adopted was simple, accurate, verifiable, secure, accountable and transparent.

The response read: "The results announced were indeed accurate and verifiable in accordance with the standard established by law and were announced in a transparent and lawful manner as contemplated by Article 86 of the Constitution and the Election (General) Regulations, 2012."

In the response filed at the Supreme Court on Tuesday evening, Kenyatta maintained that he won the election and that the allegations contained in the petition by Odinga could not be proven.

"The petition as correctly understood, is founded on a hypothesis incapable of proof; it is an expression of bitterness arising from the petitioner's loss of the poll and raises no legal issues capable of a judicial inquiry," he said.

Kenyatta said that IEBC was not constitutionally bound to use the Biometric Voter Identification (BVI) or an electronic system of transmitting election results.

"It is a fundamental misconception of the law for the petitioner (Odinga) to contend that either registration of voters, identification of voters or transmission of the votes cast was required by law to be done via an electronic system," Kenyatta's reply reads in part.

He adds that Odinga's claims about the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) are hypocritical as he had last year called for a return to the manual system and declared that ‘Kenyans did not want the BVR system.'

"Following consultations between the president, the petitioner and the 1st respondent (IEBC), a decision was made to procure the BVR Kits from the Government of Canada in a government-government deal. The Cabinet meeting at which the decision was made was chaired by the president and the petitioner," he says.

"It therefore follows that the petitioner had a critical role in the identification and eventual purchase of the BVR kits. The petitioner cannot therefore either find a cause of action arising from his participation in the purchase of the BVR kits and/or benefit from the ultimate partial failure of the electronic systems," he contends.

The president-elect says that IEBC's conduct of the General Election must be judged considering an array of factors including that it was the first time that Kenyans voted for six positions simultaneously.

Kenyatta contends that IEBC must also be judged in cognisance of the fact that, for the first time in Kenya's history, portions of the electoral process were conducted through electronic means including voter registration.

The president-elect argues the significant delays in the enactment of electoral laws by Parliament compounded by several late stage amendments disrupted IEBC's schedule of executing the efficient conduct of the election.

Kenyatta is categorical that prayers sought for in the petition are inviting the court to "to stage a coup against the constitutional governance of Kenya" as the prayers will not only invalidate the presidential election but even the parliamentary, gubernatorial, senatorial and county assembly elections.

Uhuru: Raila case ‘expression of bitterness after loss' | Capital News

 

[MaxShimba]

Point # 18: I petition the SC to provide the petitioner with post election counseling to help him overcome the pain of and deal with defeat!

 

[MkamaP]

Du hapa ina maana Raila kajishitaki mwenyewe, duuu

"It therefore follows that the petitioner had a critical role in the identification and eventual purchase of the BVR kits. The petitioner cannot therefore either find a cause of action arising from his participation in the purchase of the BVR kits and/or benefit from the ultimate partial failure of the electronic systems," he contends.

 

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Cord wait for 2018 election

How older will Raila be in 2018?
Failling to be president this time it means his chances of being Kenya president is almost imposible in 2018.

 

[MaxShimba]

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Kenyatta said that IEBC was not constitutionally bound to use the Biometric Voter Identification (BVI) or an electronic system of transmitting election results.

"It is a fundamental misconception of the law for the petitioner (Odinga) to contend that either registration of voters, identification of voters or transmission of the votes cast was required by law to be done via an electronic system," Kenyatta's reply reads in part.

He adds that Odinga's claims about the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) are hypocritical as he had last year called for a return to the manual system and declared that ‘Kenyans did not want the BVR system.'

"Following consultations between the president, the petitioner and the 1st respondent (IEBC), a decision was made to procure the BVR Kits from the Government of Canada in a government-government deal. The Cabinet meeting at which the decision was made was chaired by the president and the petitioner," he says.

"It therefore follows that the petitioner had a critical role in the identification and eventual purchase of the BVR kits. The petitioner cannot therefore either find a cause of action arising from his participation in the purchase of the BVR kits and/or benefit from the ultimate partial failure of the electronic systems," he contends.


Uhuru: Raila case ‘expression of bitterness after loss' | Capital News

Hii ndio habari bana. Kumbe alihusika kununua hizo mashine, !!!!!!

 

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hizi sababu za uhuru ni dhaifu sana against za cord. They better come with facts. Siyo kwa sababu electronic system ilishafeli marekani au ghana nako iwe guarantee zitafeli hapa.

Hapa hamna kitu, kama response yenyewe ndio hii sioni uhuru atachomokaje hapa

 

[MkamaP]

Hii ndio habari bana. Kumbe alihusika kununua hizo mashine, !!!!!!

Waziri mkuu ndo mtendaji mkuu wa serikali, hii kesi ni ngumu sana kwake. Inatakiwa Raila aonyeshe kufeli kwa machine kulim-feva Uhuru na hakukum-feva Raila, hapo ndo kasheshe linaanza. Ama njama za kufeli machine hazikufanywa na waziri mkuu dhidi ya Uhuru, bali Uhuru dhidi ya waziri mkuu.

 

[Kigogo]

Uhuru ana akili sana ....odinga alidhani kwa kuwa uhuru ana kesi ICC basi atamshinda kwenye uchaguzi .....Uhuru na Ruto ni magenius sana wa siasa za kenya na kwa mtazamo wangu ni ma stasticians wazuri sanaaaaa...

 

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hizi sababu za uhuru ni dhaifu sana against za cord. They better come with facts. Siyo kwa sababu electronic system ilishafeli marekani au ghana nako iwe guarantee zitafeli hapa.

Hapa hamna kitu, kama response yenyewe ndio hii sioni uhuru atachomokaje hapa

uwe unasoma vitu mpaka mwisho sio unarukia tu...raila naye ana akili za hivo kama wewe ndo maana ana challenge mitambo aliyohusika kununua..sasa hizo akili au mautumbo ya bata

 

[MaxShimba]

Waziri mkuu ndo mtendaji mkuu wa serikali, hii kesi ni ngumu sana kwake. Inatakiwa Raila aonyeshe kufeli kwa machine kulim-feva Uhuru na hakukum-feva Raila, hapo ndo kasheshe linaanza. Ama njama za kufeli machine hazikufanywa na waziri mkuu dhidi ya Uhuru, bali Uhuru dhidi ya waziri mkuu.

Mkuu umesema vizuri sana. Jamaa emeshika mkaa wa moto. Tusubiri wakuu wa Supreme Court waseme, lakini, RAO najua atapinga matokea ya Court, huo ndio utamaduni wake tokea azaliwe.

Huyu jamaa anazeeka vibaya sana. Poor CORD.

 

[Mchungaji Ritch]

Raila alishachemka tena inaaminika ushahidi anaoutoa kwenye mikutano yake ni ya uongo sicho alichowakilisha mahakamani anauaminisha umma waamini ana ushahidi wa kutosha ili akipigwa chini aseme mahakama imewaonea. Ndio mana kila kukicha anatafuta idara au kitengo kipi kichunguzwe ili apate ushahidi mpya pasipo kujali muda umekwisha wa kuwasilisha ushahidi wake Uhuru chapa kazi Raila hajawahi kukubali matokeo hata katika ngazi ya chama na alikataa uchaguzi ndani ya chama alipogundua mudavadi atampiga chini ndo kisa cha mudavadi kumkacha.

 

[MaxShimba]

By Black Uhuru

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Kenyatta said that IEBC was not constitutionally bound to use the Biometric Voter Identification (BVI) or an electronic system of transmitting election results.

"It is a fundamental misconception of the law for the petitioner (Odinga) to contend that either registration of voters, identification of voters or transmission of the votes cast was required by law to be done via an electronic system," Kenyatta's reply reads in part.

He adds that Odinga's claims about the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) are hypocritical as he had last year called for a return to the manual system and declared that ‘Kenyans did not want the BVR system.'

"Following consultations between the president, the petitioner and the 1st respondent (IEBC), a decision was made to procure the BVR Kits from the Government of Canada in a government-government deal. The Cabinet meeting at which the decision was made was chaired by the president and the petitioner," he says.

"It therefore follows that the petitioner had a critical role in the identification and eventual purchase of the BVR kits. The petitioner cannot therefore either find a cause of action arising from his participation in the purchase of the BVR kits and/or benefit from the ultimate partial failure of the electronic systems," he contends.


Uhuru: Raila case ‘expression of bitterness after loss' | Capital News

RAO is done.