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Tuesday, 12 January 2016

RAILA REACTS ON YESTERDAYS IEBC PROGRESS ON BUNGOMA SENATOR

Cord leader Raila Odinga yesterday warned that the opposition will not accept anything short of a clearance of Moses Wetang’ula from Supreme Court findings of voter bribery.
Raila was addressing Cord supporters outside the Milimani courts, Nairobi, as Wetang’ula appeared before an electoral inquiry that will decide his political career for the next five years.
He faces the prospect of his name being struck off the voters’ register over election offences.
“The IEBC should clear Wetang’ula because this is a Jubilee agenda and we know it. They are panicking. That is why they are trying every trick in the book, but I want to tell them we will not be pushed,” Raila told hundreds of supporters.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission inquiry is led by Thomas Letangule, commissioners Lilian Mahiri-Zaja and Mohamed Alawi and is considering a report of the Supreme Court that found Wetang’ula to have committed the offences during the 2013 general election.
However, Raila, who sat through the entire proceedings, accused Jubilee of victimising the Senator for Bungoma, who is also a Cord principal.
“The game they [Jubilee] are trying, former presidents Moi and Kibaki tried but flopped miserably. Jubilee is known to steal elections and that is why they are frustrating Wetang’ula,” he said.
Earlier in the day, Wetang’ula's defence team, led by James Orengo and Edwin Sifuna, tore into the Supreme Court report, dismissing its findings as not based on law when it comes to having the senator’s name deleted from the voter register.
The report recommended to the IEBC that it consider whether the senator's name should be removed from the role of registered voters.
Orengo argued that the inquiry should accord Wetang’ula a fair hearing.
Orengo, the Siaya Senator, said that section 87 (3) of the Elections Act was used by the courts against his client is of doubtful constitutionality and that because the matter is criminal the electoral court has no competence in it.
“The situation you are in is of doubtful penalization. If you find yourself in this position, the best you can do is rule in favour of the person who is appearing before you. It is a doctrine that has survived hundreds of centuries,” Orengo said.
Orengo told the inquiry that is set to deliver its ruling before January 20, 2016, the High Court in Bungoma did not convict Wetang’ula of the electoral offence.
At one point, Letangule wondered out loud, “Why are we here?”
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