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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Simanova on June 24, 2016, 03:48:05 PM
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Is he with Jubilee or CORD or independent? Is he supporting Reforms or just the removal of commissioners. What is wrong with looking at the constitution to reform it? Does he even know CORD and Jubilee positions? Both coalitions moved away from their street and barricade positions on to structure talks and agreement. The back channels worked. So how come he is six weeks behind when CORD was rattling the saber?
He likes to pretend he is very wise and balanced. He wants to appear to be hitting at both CORD and Jubilee. A loser
Amani leader Musalia Mudavadi has said the select committee on electoral reforms should avoid delving into matters of constitutional review.
He said the committee should stick to its mandate on ensuring free, fair and legitimate elections “because we don’t have time”.
“Review of the constitution should be held after the elections under a national conference, where the system of governance and other issues that require a referendum can be decided,” Mudavadi said on the phone on Wednesday. He said the committee should keep off attempts to change the date of elections from August next year. The select committee comprising seven members from Cord and seven from Jubilee is expected to begin its work once Parliament approves the names.
The committee’s mandate includes inquiring into allegations against the IEBC commissioners and secretariat and recommending legal, policy and institutional reforms to strengthen the agency and ensure the August polls are held in a simple, accurate, verifiable, secure and transparent manner.
Cord, with support from some Jubilee leaders, are said to be aiming at targeting the secretariat. But interference with the secretariat may mean changing the election date. Mudavadi dismissed as wishful thinking reports in a local daily that he is in talks with Cord leader Raila Odinga for a unified opposition in 2017. The Sunday Nation reported that he met Raila to discuss a unified opposition.
Mudavadi said adjudication on hatemongers by the law enforcement agencies is not impartial because of vested ethnic interests. “Those institutions are shy to deal firmly with hate speech because the national policy on inclusivity has been abrogated by Jubilee,” he said. “It has become fashionable to incite ethnic hatred. Politicians are the villains in polarising the country because we carry ethnic votes and ethnic exclusion seems to be a national policy.”