Push and pull as Kenya prepares for fresh presidential elections

Contributor in Nairobi, Kenya

Nation Media Group

Ahead of the Supreme Court’s delivery of its full ruling that annulled Kenya’s August 8 presidential election, political drama, intrigues and threats have taken centre stage.

The highlight of the week was Thursday’s petition by Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu to remove Chief Justice David Maraga for presiding over the nullification of the election.

That all Forms 34bs be preprinted indicating names of polling stations and candidates, and should be standardised.
That presidential election to be constituency based; as confirmed by the Court of Appeal in the IEBC vs Maina Kiai case.
That the media have access to polling station and constituency results.
That another printer other than Al Ghurair be contracted to print ballot papers and results declaration forms for the fresh election.
That election monitors from a multi-sectoral group be introduced and have a signing off role for election material and results declaration forms at polling stations and constituency tallying centres.
That a new lot of Returning Officers be appointed for all 291 constituencies. And that their posting should be done through open balloting to determine where they will be posted.
That there be no test messaging in sending election results. That only scanned images be sent through the KIEMS kits to constituency and national tallying centre and displayed to the public.
That candidates’ agents be present at all levels and processes of the election.
That independent international experts be engaged to manage the entire ICT framework for the election with close supervision of the candidates’ agents and the IEBC.
That IEBC provides a list of all polling stations and registered voters per polling stations in advance and list should have GPS location of said stations and the network coverage.
That all returning and national tallying centre officers who allowed illegal documents – 80 fake and therefore illegal Form 34bs in the August 8 poll — to pass as results, vacate office before the fresh election; That the officers who facilitated the display of figures purported to be results and which were disowned by the Commission at the Supreme Court, also vacate office.

Push and pull as Kenya prepares for fresh presidential elections

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