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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Higgins the genius on November 18, 2014, 04:48:14 PM
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STATEMENT BY Coalition for Reform and Democracy - CORD Railonzo 2013 ON HOW A CORRUPT Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) RIGGED THE 2013
Ladies and Gentlemen;
Very damaging and very shameful information is coming out of a London Court on the integrity and veracity of our elections and electoral processes running into 2013.
The integrity of the people who ran that process and the integrity of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission and the many other public institutions to which some of the former election officers have been deployed is in serious question. The case in London by the Serious Fraud Office puts our prosecution and our Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission to serious shame and credibility questions.
That Kenyan election officials pocketed millions of shillings in bribes to award lucrative printing contracts to Smith & Ouzman over a two-year period, then those same people proceeded to manage our critical 2013 polls is an unacceptably strong statement on how low we sank and how much some of us insist we must remain in that hole.
This same team that was asking for “chicken” from the printing company proceeded to procure for the high stakes 2013 elections, taking their corrupt ways, integrity questions and credibility gaps into an election whose significance was at par with the one held just before independence.Of concern beyond the corruption allegations is that:
a) Smith & Ouzman, apart from giving bribes to the Kenya election officials, also printed additional ballot papers for Jubilee which were used to rig the 2013 Presidential elections.
b) Gladys Shollei, who was fired as the Registrar of the Judiciary amidst similar corruption allegation, presided over the scrutiny of the IEBC tallying of the ballot on behalf of the Supreme Court in the 2013 election petition. Before joining the Judiciary, she was an official at IEBC and is implicated in the corruption at IEBC.
c) During the tallying scrutiny at the Supreme Court, Jubilee was represented by Mr Davis Chirchir who was also a former colleague of Gladys Shollei at IEBC and is similarly implicated in this scandal.
d) Some former members of this same team have gone ahead to be appointed to critical public positions like Cabinet Secretary for Energy, held by Mr Davis Chirchir.
e) This same Chairman of IEBC, seeing nothing wrong with his conduct, is equally insisting on staying to manage our future elections.
We maintain that we cannot let the past and its ghosts rest. We reject the doctrine of “accept and move on” while our nation suffers.
We must take charge of the future.
We therefore demand
1. The immediate resignation of all the officers and former officers mentioned in this scandal, their immediate arrest and their immediate prosecution. The acountability must begin at the top with the arrest and prosecution of Mr Chirchir and Mr Hassan.
2. We demand the investigation and audit of all the commissioners and principal officers of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. Such investigation must also be extended to the all those who worked with this commission but who have since been deployed elsewhere or sacked.
3. We demand answers on what the government knows and when they knew it. We refuse to be party to the conspiracy of silence. What is being adduced in court in London point to a serous, baffling and shameful integrity and credibility gap on the part of these present and former officers and an indictment of the Jubilee regime. It cannot be that Jubilee does not know what these officers did. We have an intelligence service that is required to do background checks on people before they are appointed to key public positions like that of Cabinet Secretary.
4. We demand that the EACC show cause why it cannot be disbanded, and investigations opened into its officers. This development puts to great shame our prosecutors, particularly the Director of Public Prosecutions and the anti-corruption agency officials who have yet to nail anyone for these offences.
5. We demand the immediate arrest of Mr Trevy James Oyombra who is reported to have been the Kenyan making hefty payouts to Kenyan officials to influence the award of printing contracts to the UK firm. He must be sought and held to account.
6. We demand that the Kenya Commercial Bank, to which money was transferred for Mr Oyombra for onward distribution, must help the investigations and disclose how much was transferred to the officials implicated.
This scandal kills completely the credibility and global standing of our nation. We have reason to believe that this international corruption network remains intact in government. It is wreaking more havoc on our economy, compromising provision of public services while at the same time raising the cost of those same services, shoddily rendered.
As the Serious Fraud Office has rightly said, “Corruption in the public sector hampers the efficiency of public services, undermines confidence in public institutions and increases the cost of public transactions.
The integrity of the IEBC has been brought into serious question. So is that of any other public institution led by any officer who participated in this fraud.
All individuals and institutions mentioned must account.
Signed
The Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga
H.E Hon. @Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka
Hon. @Moses Wetangula
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Was it wrong for Chirchir to represent Jubilee when Hassan Straight from fixing UhuRuto in KNHRC went to CORD?
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IEBC will need to be reconstituted a fresh.
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Pundit,
How fresh can it be? LOL.
They reconstituted after Kavuludi. And now its rotten???
It needs people of integrity. I thought Sholei was clean! Apparently, all have sinned and come short of......
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Pundit,
How fresh can it be? LOL.
They reconstituted after Kavuludi. And now its rotten???
It needs people of integrity. I thought Sholei was clean! Apparently, all have sinned and come short of......
Shollei is a metaphor for sleaze.
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We have to keep firing and firing them until we find those clean enough to want to keep their jobs. There is no other way. There is no way Hassan and company can oversee the next election after this sleeze. That would be endangering the nation. CREDIBLE,FREE AND FAIR Elections are more important than anything in nationhood....and the holders of election bodies should be BEYOND REPROACH.
CORD have struggled to implicate Hassan and IEBC...but now SFO of London have done Hassan and team in.
Pundit,
How fresh can it be? LOL.
They reconstituted after Kavuludi. And now its rotten???
It needs people of integrity. I thought Sholei was clean! Apparently, all have sinned and come short of......
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Pundit, but that just the prosecution case. I do not see the difference of them and Fat Bensoda!! They just remain allegations!!!
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No they are very different.
1) To remove a commissioner (or any civil servant) we just need prima facia evidence (allegations) presented to parliament (and or person in authority) and parliament if they are convinced on the seriousness of the allegations...they set up a tribunal...and if they vote for removal of IEBC commisioners..that will be it. The standard in parliament is not BEYOND REASONABLE doubt.
2) UhuRuto and 5,000 plus politicians serving in GOK (as MCAs,MPs, Senators, Governors); you'll need more to fire them; they were hired directly by the people; You'll need to find them guilty & jailed for more than six months and give them time to exhaust all the avenues of appeals and reviews. Hassan, Chirchir and company DO NOT ENJOY that privilege.
3) Both UhuRuto and Hassan will remain innocent till proven guilty....in criminal trial perspective. Hassan ought to be fired by parliament upon a petition..but he will remain a free man..until he is nailed by the court. Most likely he won't be nailed.
Bottomline. Civil and public servants do not enjoy the same rights and privellege like folks elected directly by the people. They can and should be fired anytime anyhow.
Any citizen of kenya who truly loves this country should quickly ran to parliament and file a petition for removal of all commissioners of IEBC and an MP should initiate censure vote on Chirchir based on the very serious allegation by SFO (UK).
Pundit, but that just the prosecution case. I do not see the difference of them and Fat Bensoda!! They just remain allegations!!!
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Now i get it!!!
poor souls. I pity them! I thought Chirchir was a very wealthy man to chase 2 Million
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Why pity them. These guys have become wealthy from stealing from you. The printing was inflated by 35%.
We just held the MOST EXPENSIVE ELECTION in the whole world bar UN sponsored Afgan election. I do not have the facts offhead but it came down to something like 30,000Kshs per voter expenditure..or well over 20B kshs.
Everything we buy in kenya gov is inflated upto 3 times...thanks to list of civil servants all demand part of a cut...imagine the cascading effect of demanding the cut at every level till the final consumer of goods or services.
Think every gun we buy for our police, the SGR now ongoing, tissue paper ,sugar name it...3 times the average world prices..unless you're crafty and buying it directly from Kismayu port like somalis have done..and grown very wealthy from it.
This is the most pervasive corruption in both private and public sector..that is responsible for inflating prices in the country.
Nearly every tender or purchase or deal or contract....at least 10-30% is the cut.
poor souls. I pity them! I thought Chirchir was a very wealthy man to chase 2 Million
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Read and weep. Most expensive because everything is inflated by 35%..or maybe even worse.Ghana at same GDP leves with kenya...are conducting elections at 0.7 dollars a person or 60shs...and we are doing 2,000kshs or 25 dollars...that is 40 times more expensive than Ghana..and yet Ghana election are credible and used biometrics that actually worked.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Kenya-election-is-world-s-most-expensive/-/688340/1408894/-/g7vxhsz/-/index.html
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Read and weep. Most expensive because everything is inflated by 35%..or maybe even worse.Ghana at same GDP leves with kenya...are conducting elections at 0.7 dollars a person or 60shs...and we are doing 2,000kshs or 25 dollars...that is 40 times more expensive than Ghana..and yet Ghana election are credible and used biometrics that actually worked.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Kenya-election-is-world-s-most-expensive/-/688340/1408894/-/g7vxhsz/-/index.html (http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Kenya-election-is-world-s-most-expensive/-/688340/1408894/-/g7vxhsz/-/index.html)
It's grim. In Kenya, it is past the tipping point. It is now entrenched. Institutionalized. Fresh faces come in and have no choice but to play along. This is why I am convinced EACC or anything else that is created by the current same players to tackle corruption just becomes another avenue for the same.
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Woyeee. Kenya is kaput.