Raila Opposes IEBC's Ballot Printing Tender to Dubai Firm, Says it Has Links with Jubilee
Opposition chief Raila Odinga has opposed the new Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission tender for ballot paper printing awarded to a Dubai firm, Al Ghurair. Al Ghurair was awarded the lucrative tender to print 120 million ballot papers, election results forms and poll registers to be used in the August 8 polls.
Raila says the firm can’t be awarded the tender as it had links with Jubilee, doubting its credibility. "Owners of this firm hosted senior Jubilee officials in Dubai in February last year, when the ballot printing tender was discussed," he said during the National Elections Conference in Nairobi on Tuesday.
He further said that senior officials of the firm were in Kenya in October 2016 as heads of a business delegation on invite of Jubilee administration. "...they were brought by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce during which trip they held further talks on this contract with Jubilee officials."
"This development is ill-advised and unfortunate. This firm holds partisan political positions and all this has never been disclosed. The firm will undermine the credibility of the elections," he said.
He continued, "This casts a dark shadow, which could have been avoided, on the credibility of the elections. There appears to have been a clear determination by the IEBC to award this tender to the Dubai-based firm no matter what."
He called on the electoral body to consider awarding the tender to another firm whose credibility was not questionable.
"We have been victims before and are definitely concerned. It is not too late for the IEBC to do the right thing. We would like to see free fair elections in our country," he said.
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I beseech IEBC to award the…
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I beseech IEBC to award the the lucrative tender to print 120 million ballot papers, election results forms and poll registers to be used in the August 8 polls to my uncle Ojinga.
He will use his family business - the Bondo Printing Press to print all that is required but he will still be floored by Jubilee for lack of vision and attention to detail.
Ojinga is panicky and paranoic.He has an ego bigger than this world and he is not driven by love for country and people but by personal greed and desire to settle scores with those who have wronged him in his miserable political life and he therefore knows that his time is limited and cannot waste it
living someone else's life. I therefore ask my uncle - Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Joshua = President = The most powerful man from Luo Nyanza and the one who led a demonic movement a.k.a O.D.M a.k.a. Ojinga Demonic Movement. Everything else is secondary irrespective of how many lives are lost while on your journey to the top seat on the Kenyan nation.
But please uncle remember this - mother's had given birth to other Joshua's before you declared yourself one.
To conclude - buyer be aware and warned.This candidates' sell by date has expired!
Raila knows that he has…
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Raila knows that he has already lost the election and that is why he is citing any possible way to justify him to start violence after the August 8 results are announced. He championed the removal of the previous IEBC members. He is not happy with this one either. The noise of a loser.
Ojinga knows that a lie does…
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Ojinga knows that a lie does not become truth,a wrong does not become right and evil does not become good just because it is accepted by a majority like he always want Kenyans to believe.
Raila knows very well that…
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Raila knows very well that he ll loose the coming election so he is trying to bring a confusion so that conflicts erupt so that he get his premier position
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