NASA Issues Nine Demands for Raila to Participate in Repeat Election

The opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) has spelt out nine conditions that must be met by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) for Raila Odinga to take part in the October 17th repeat election.

On Tuesday, Raila noted that the nine demands must be met, failure to which, there will be no elections on October 17th.

“We have given them conditions, if those conditions are not met there will be no elections on October 17,” Raila stated.

NASA demands that all the forms in the repeat elections to be pre-printed indicating names of polling stations and candidates.

The opposition outfit also demand that Returning Officers must physically fill the forms and make a formal declaration at the tallying centres. They further want a new firm other than Dubai-based Al Ghurair be awarded the ballot printing tender and non-standardized forms.

Raila also wants IEBC to invite election monitors from multi-sectoral groups and must be allowed to sign result declaration forms to authenticate the results. They also demand Returning officers appointed in all the 291 constituencies with the current ones retained as Election Managers at the Constituencies.

Further, the opposition outfit demands that only scanned images should be transmitted through the electronic kits and not text messages. It also want electoral commission to declare the total number of persons who voted before the official counting of votes begin.

Nasa also want all agents be present during all election processes and also allow independent International experts to manage the ICT framework within the commission.

The Odinga-led team also wants IEBC Ceo Ezra Chiloba and a number of commissioners fired before they participate in the election.

Others officials that Nasa want removed include Abdi Guliye, Marijan Hussein Marijan, Betty Nyabuto – Deputy Commission Secretary (Operations), James Muhati, Director ICT, Immaculate Kassait, Praxedes Tororey, Moses Kipkogey, Sidney Namulungu, Nancy Kariuki and Silas Rotich.