Omollo,
I am not convinced 2013 was clean. There were too many things, most I can't recall because of passage of time, that didn't add up. But the key was not the electronic system, but rather the avoidance of it at key points. Biometric verification died on the spot and we were left with an election no different from 2007 catching CORD unprepared logistically for a manual election.
The important thing to learn for CORD, having wasted 3 to 4 years, before bringing these issues up, is that the electronic system is not ready for 2017. In other words, they should prepare for a manual election with all the necessary logistics that they did not have in place in 2013. Ensure an agent at every count at polling station level recording on video(cell phones, camcorders and what have you) for instance. In fact given the state of the election system, CORD should insist on and prepare for a purely manual election in 2017.
5000 out of 6000 people who enrolled in NYS are shocked to find their details already registered as voter by @IEBCKenya #VoterCardScandal
— Hon Lee Makwiny (@leemakwiny) January 23, 2017
I have not heard of ID duplication in Ukambani,Nyanza or Coast . The cases are only in central and Rift Valley @IEBCKenya #VoterCardScandal
— Rein (@Asamoh_) January 23, 2017
What makes the ID duplication suspect is that it's rampant in Central Kenya and Rift Valley which are Jubilee strongholds #VoterCardScandal
— nyandiga (@nyandiga001) January 23, 2017
a friend of mine is also a victim of these sharing IDs menace. 'coincidentally' he shares the ID with a wairimu #VoterCardScandal
— HEMEDI MOHA® (@HemediMoha) January 23, 2017
The important thing to learn for CORD, having wasted 3 to 4 years, before bringing these issues up, is that the electronic system is not ready for 2017. In other words, they should prepare for a manual election with all the necessary logistics that they did not have in place in 2013. Ensure an agent at every count at polling station level recording on video(cell phones, camcorders and what have you) for instance. In fact given the state of the election system, CORD should insist on and prepare for a purely manual election in 2017.
3. (1) Every person has an obligation to respect, uphold and defend this Constitution.
Exactly.
The important thing to learn for CORD, having wasted 3 to 4 years, before bringing these issues up, is that the electronic system is not ready for 2017. In other words, they should prepare for a manual election with all the necessary logistics that they did not have in place in 2013. Ensure an agent at every count at polling station level recording on video(cell phones, camcorders and what have you) for instance. In fact given the state of the election system, CORD should insist on and prepare for a purely manual election in 2017.
Who can explain this:
(http://omollosview.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Population.jpg)
(http://omollosview.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Voters-2016.jpg)
Pundit
This has nothing to do with:
1. Underage persons being issued with ID cards in Central while Western, North Eastern and Nyanza youth are ignored or doubted? People in Busia and Bungoma being treated as Ugandans while those in NEP treated as Somalians?
2. This has nothing to do with historically inflated population figures that started with Kenyatta, tamed but not eliminated under Moi and resumed Under Kibaki and got worse under Uhuru? Why did the voter numbers in Central double after 2002 but DECREASE in 2013?
3. The Voter register not being properly cleaned in 2013 and being further contaminated by the NIS working with the outgoing commissioners under Isaack Hassan?
Pundit we have a Nigerian situation where the truth about how many people are in Kenya has not been established. It follows that there are strong vested interests that do not wish to see that happen. When a census showed a decline in Luo population (which I still doubt) there was jubilation is some quarters and anger in others. Kibaki tried to suppress the Somali population which is at 2 million.
Only Raila will settle the population figures problem.
Now this Termie:5000 out of 6000 people who enrolled in NYS are shocked to find their details already registered as voter by @IEBCKenya #VoterCardScandal
— Hon Lee Makwiny (@leemakwiny) January 23, 2017
MoonKi and Termie
I still don't understand your reasoning. CORD has done nothing but seek a free and fair election since the 2013 elections.
1. The Supreme Court ruled that Hassan and the IEBC be investigated and sanctioned. Uhuru had a simple way of delaying the investigations: He started the long process of disabling the EACC along with other delaying tactics.
2. Wafula Buke filed a petition for the removal of the IEBC (http://www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/IEBC-Cord-Parliament-Petition-Robert-Wafula-Buke/1064-2378240-59urhnz/index.html). Jubilee used its numbers to frustrate the petition
3. CORD supported the Petition by Buke and in fact withheld its own petition as drawn by Anyang Nyong'o (http://www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/cord-iebc-petition-parliament/1064-2296196-10w6jqk/index.html)
4. CORD met the IEBC (http://www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Cord-leaders-to-meet-IEBC-officials/1064-2780200-ywa8psz/index.html) and filed specific demands. This was to rule out any possibility of arguing that CORD had not tried to meet the IEBC. No results
Another link: CORD meets Hassan, wants IEBC to prove it can hold fair polls (http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2015/07/cord-meets-hassan-wants-iebc-to-prove-it-can-hold-fair-polls/)
5. When dialogue failed and Hassan and Jubilee resorted to arrogance including vowing that the IEBC will stay put CORD launched OKOA Kenya with a view of getting a popular removal of IEBC and securing a free and fair election. The IEBC blatantly rigged the process and caused the plebiscite to fail before a vote.
6. CORD having realized that the IEBC as constituted was incorrigible made the decision to get rid of it in one swoop through street demonstrations. Your views on the demos are forever preserved here and multiple search engines
7. CORD opted for structural changes to ensure that it mattered not who was heading the IEBC. Many asked what it is we had achieved when Uhuru was to name the Commissioners
8. Uhuru gets advice from Ndung'u, Abdi Kadir, Njee Muturi and Issack Hassan about the implications of the changes. He scuttles some of the changes in parliament.
I have given a survey of what CORD has done since 2014 to date. I have left out many small details but picked the key moments.
So would you stop this monotonous refrain: What has CORD done the last 4 years.
Note that free and fair elections are the responsibility of all Kenyans as dictated by the constitution which states:Quote3. (1) Every person has an obligation to respect, uphold and defend this Constitution.Exactly.The important thing to learn for CORD, having wasted 3 to 4 years, before bringing these issues up, is that the electronic system is not ready for 2017. In other words, they should prepare for a manual election with all the necessary logistics that they did not have in place in 2013. Ensure an agent at every count at polling station level recording on video(cell phones, camcorders and what have you) for instance. In fact given the state of the election system, CORD should insist on and prepare for a purely manual election in 2017.
Pundit
This has nothing to do with:
1. Underage persons being issued with ID cards in Central while Western, North Eastern and Nyanza youth are ignored or doubted? People in Busia and Bungoma being treated as Ugandans while those in NEP treated as Somalians?
2. This has nothing to do with historically inflated population figures that started with Kenyatta, tamed but not eliminated under Moi and resumed Under Kibaki and got worse under Uhuru? Why did the voter numbers in Central double after 2002 but DECREASE in 2013?
3. The Voter register not being properly cleaned in 2013 and being further contaminated by the NIS working with the outgoing commissioners under Isaack Hassan?
Pundit we have a Nigerian situation where the truth about how many people are in Kenya has not been established. It follows that there are strong vested interests that do not wish to see that happen. When a census showed a decline in Luo population (which I still doubt) there was jubilation is some quarters and anger in others. Kibaki tried to suppress the Somali population which is at 2 million.
Only Raila will settle the population figures problem.
I don't recall any campaign to fix the electronic system whose obvious flaws were readily apparent in 2013, if not earlier.
4. CORD met the IEBC and filed specific demands. This was to rule out any possibility of arguing that CORD had not tried to meet the IEBC. No results
I guess the Opposition will be blamed for everything.
I recall the triumphalism that followed Uhuru's electoral theft.
By Alphonce Shiundu
NAIROBI, KENYA: The Jubilee government has for the first time indicted the opposition’s ability to check the Executive just days after the main opposition party in the country, the Orange Democratic Movement, failed to hold its elections.
In a telling interview with a radio station, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s spokesperson Manoah Esipisu, hinted at his boss’s elation regarding the moribund opposition in Parliament, where the ruling Jubilee coalition has a clear majority.
“We would like a strong opposition, a constructive opposition, an opposition engaged with issues. Should I say whether the opposition is playing their role well? I think they are trying their best; I think they can do better, as always,” said Esipisu on Easy FM.
Jubilee queries ODM’s ability to check government (http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000106048/jubilee-queries-odm-s-ability-to-check-government)
The intimidation of the opposition.
There was also a fight over the right to retain his personal security, much of which was withdrawn, and at some point the former head of the Public Service Francis Kimemia issued instructions that Mr Odinga should be subjected to petty personal indignities if he should try to use the presidential lounge at national airports.
There is a sense in which the Cord leadership has been struggling for political significance ever since the last elections, amid a determined put-down by Jubilee. Because of their positions as former Prime Minister and Vice-President, respectively, Mr Odinga and Mr Kalonzo Musyoka have, in particular, had an unusually difficult task of transitioning from the high offices they held in the former government and trying to create new roles for themselves in an unchartered political order.
Link: Given its handling of the Opposition, Jubilee ‘had it coming’ (http://www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Jubilee-had-it-coming-with-Saba-Saba/1064-2373648-13bgeh2/index.html)
The fleeing of rats from a sinking ship. Tumbocrats rose to fame.
Mr Shahbal said he defected from Wiper because the Cord coalition failed to fulfill promises to coast people.
Mr Kajembe who was ODM deputy national chairman and Mombasa County chairman said he defected from the opposition party two weeks ago.
Boost for Jubilee as Coast leaders leave Cord (http://www.nation.co.ke/news/1056-2617374-lbq4bjz/index.html)QuoteRebel opposition MP Gideon Mung’aro has ended months of silence over his links with the Orange Democratic Movement by announcing that he would not use the party’s ticket to vie for the Kilifi governor’s seat next year.
Speaking in Kaloleni-Giriama on Saturday, the Kilifi North MP said he had officially “divorced” the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) and would challenge Governor Amason Kingi on a different political party ticket, which he did not name.
Mung'aro Goes Eating (http://www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/I-have-divorced-Cord-says-Mungaro/1064-3269170-2089x9z/index.html)
It is then that Uhuru purchased his first batch of opposition MPs and senators.
Last weekend, Msambweni MP Suleiman Dori (ODM), Kwale County Woman Representative Zainab Chidzuga (ODM), Lunga Lunga MP Khatib Mwashetani (Ford-Kenya) and Kinango’s Gonzi Rai (TNA) hosted National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale in Msambweni.Others who had been working with Uhuru while pretending to be in CORD eventually gave up the charade and moved in to Jubilee included:
We lost governors too. Mutua crossed the divide (if he ever was one of us God only knows).The list is long. So those will suffice in proving the point I made. I am available to add more names of MPs who not only defected but did so announcing that they were practically following the money and that the opposition had nothing to offer. Some of them could immediately display new found wealth and opulence hitherto foreign to them.
They started impeachment proceedings against those governors the deemed not too malleable.Kivutha Kibwana Impeached. (http://www.nation.co.ke/counties/motion-seeking-to-oust-Kibwana/-/1107872/2480728/-/ays04cz/-/index.html)
They started with a political lobotomy: Mutula Kilonzo murdered by a Jubilee prostitute (who was later rewarded with a plum parastatal job).
President Uhuru Kenyatta has made sweeping changes in parastatals, bringing in popular media personalities to give fresh impetus to the state corporations.The suspect has been publicly named on talk shows, radio stations etc and has been challenged to sue. She has not. Legally at the elapse of the grace period whence one should sue, such allegations are considered truthful.
Radio queen radio personality Caroline Mutoko has been appointed to serve on the board of the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication.
Ms Mutoko is currently the ?program controller at Kiss 100 and also the group marketing manager at Radio Africa Group Limited.
They would later serve Kajwang a glass of water in Kiambu the following year.It is a matter of public record that Kajwang did not eat anything in Kiambu when he went to inspect the bypass construction. He only got a bottle / glass of water.
Even before that there were multiple attempts on Wetangula's life with the most prominent taking place in January 2014. Others on the Naivasha road (same spot where Kajwang had escaped when passerby rescued him before the killers came to knock him off) and near Eldoret are well known facts within CORD.Moses Wetang'ula's driver insists car was shot at (http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Moses-Wetangula-Attack-Shooting-Nairobi-Mbagathi-Way/1056-2144578-8vun1x/index.html)
CORD overcame all this. It stopped the hemorrhaging of our membership and made CORD attractive again.
Did we suffer? Yes.
We lost MPs to Eurobond.But reclaimed the agenda.
Some of the MPs became irrelevant.
Omollo and Kichwa-mmeza mate:
I don't know why you keep using words such as "blame" and "blaming", which are unhelpfully emotional words. I do not blame CORD for anything. All I have done is note that CORD has, for years, not been doing what it should have been doing for a party bent on getting into power. That's it.
You may disagree with my views, but it serves no purpose to offer me explanations, or to list all the great things that CORD has supposedly been doing, or to enlighten me on the wise sayings of Luos. None of that will change my opinion. But what I think doesn't really matter anyway; so you guys should not get so worked up about it. If I am wrong, then I will be proved wrong when the votes are finally counted in August. That's it.
And all we are asking is that you appreciate what CORD is up against. Registering people to vote in CORD's strongholds is not as easy as you tend to portray when they are going against an openly hostile IEBC and a government whose very survival depends on maintaining its control over the voter registration process. A government that is not only corrupt but also controls the two branches of government and has considerable influence on the third branch through unlimited resources. Ignoring all this and trying to give the impression that CORD is simply not doing enough to register people to vote is unfair criticism. At least acknowledge what CORD is up against in this registration maneno.
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/02/08/ranguma-accused-of-sabotaging-voter-mobilisation-in-kisumu_c1503067 (http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/02/08/ranguma-accused-of-sabotaging-voter-mobilisation-in-kisumu_c1503067)
I can't see it, but I imagine that sufficient effort will soon reveal Jubilee's dirty hand:
ODM/CORD Bigwigs Inspire Voters!
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/02/08/ranguma-accused-of-sabotaging-voter-mobilisation-in-kisumu_c1503067
And this is with how any days left?
Note: No blame here. Just a link to a news article and a couple of one-sentence comments.
And all we are asking is that you appreciate what CORD is up against. Registering people to vote in CORD's strongholds is not as easy as you tend to portray when they are going against an openly hostile IEBC and a government whose very survival depends on maintaining its control over the voter registration process. A government that is not only corrupt but also controls the two branches of government and has considerable influence on the third branch through unlimited resources. Ignoring all this and trying to give the impression that CORD is simply not doing enough to register people to vote is unfair criticism. At least acknowledge what CORD is up against in this registration maneno.
This article clearly fits your long standing narrative about voter registration in Nyanza but this article is more about the local political rivalry between Nyongo camp and Raguma camp than voter registration. Voter Registration is huge right now in Kenya and in Nyanza its taken a new political dimension. Not registering to vote or interfering with voter registration is equivalent to being anti-Raila or being a jubilee mole. Politicians have figured this out and therefore the most effective weapon against an opponent is to label them anti-voter registration of some sort. This is Nyongo going nuclear on Raguma and has nothing to do with voter registration. Women have been told to deny men sex if they do not register to vote, folks are not being asked to show their voter registration cards before being provided basic needs and even folks in the diaspora are being asked to stop sending money to relatives who have not registered to vote.
And all we are asking is that you appreciate what CORD is up against. Registering people to vote in CORD's strongholds is not as easy as you tend to portray when they are going against an openly hostile IEBC and a government whose very survival depends on maintaining its control over the voter registration process. A government that is not only corrupt but also controls the two branches of government and has considerable influence on the third branch through unlimited resources. Ignoring all this and trying to give the impression that CORD is simply not doing enough to register people to vote is unfair criticism. At least acknowledge what CORD is up against in this registration maneno.QuoteThis article clearly fits your long standing narrative about voter registration in Nyanza but this article is more about the local political rivalry between Nyongo camp and Raguma camp than voter registration. Voter Registration is huge right now in Kenya and in Nyanza its taken a new political dimension. Not registering to vote or interfering with voter registration is equivalent to being anti-Raila or being a jubilee mole. Politicians have figured this out and therefore the most effective weapon against an opponent is to label them anti-voter registration of some sort. This is Nyongo going nuclear on Raguma and has nothing to do with voter registration. Women have been told to deny men sex if they do not register to vote, folks are not being asked to show their voter registration cards before being provided basic needs and even folks in the diaspora are being asked to stop sending money to relatives who have not registered to vote.
You are still trying to sell me stuff I've already and repeatedly refused to buy. My conclusions on what CORD should have been doing and could have been doing all these years were not formed yesterday; nor were my opinions formed without knowledge of the IEBC, the government, etc.
If as you say, voter registration is "huge" and has taken a "new dimension" in Nyanza, that is excellent. I don't quite see it that way. To you the "local political rivalry" among senior people in ODM/CORD does not say much about voter registration; to me it says that these people don't even know have Clue #1 of should be focusing on right now. I don't see there an environment in which people are inclined to rush out and register as voters. The formation of half-assed committees at the last minute also indicates a lack of careful and detailed planning (with preparation for contingencies).
But we need not argue endlessly about any of that; we will have the numbers soon enough.
By the way, I do not have a "long standing narrative about voter registration in Nyanza". Where did you get that one? I have asked (and asked and asked) questions about CORD and the registration of its supporters, but my questions have never been about any specific region. Now, for once, let me make a specific comment on Nyanza: Voting in Kenya is largely tribal, so what happens in Nyanza indicates an upper bound on what Raila may reasonably expect elsewhere; that is why it should matter to you folks.