Re: [wanabidii] Chaos after varsity students discover IEBC ballot materials

African countries have a long way to go towards democracy

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Yona Maro <oldmoshi@gmail.com> wrote:
> By Jeckonia Otieno
>
> NAIROBI; KENYA: Riots erupted at Kenyatta University's main campus after
> students discovered ballot materials in one of the buildings.
>
> Problem started earlier in the day when students allegedly discovered some
> unexplained business at the university's business centre.
>
> Before the riots could end, students had burnt a car whose owner could not
> be established and barricaded the Thika Superhighway forcing vehicles to
> resort to other routes hence a massive traffic snarl up.
>
> According to students, the room had been marked OUT OF BOUNDS by those who
> were inside conducting unexplained business.
>
> Students noted that they got suspicious after they found out that the door
> was marked yet there were activities associated to the currently disputed
> elections going on.
>
> Inside the hall were ballot materials ranging ballot boxes, books, papers,
> rubber stamps, jackets and lantern lamps.
>
> It is further alleged that the people who were inside the hall might have
> diffused into the crowd hence none was arrested.
>
> National Assembly elect for Budalang'i, Ababu Namwamba, arrived at the scene
> and asked for investigations to be carried out speedily so that it can be
> established what ballot materials were doing at the university yet all the
> materials were supposed to be at the National Tallying Centre at Bomas of
> Kenya.
>
> "This is democracy on trial," said Namwamba adding that it is very unusual
> that some of the ballot materials have been used while others have not been
> touched which raises serious questions on the credibility o these
> elections."
>
> Namwamba further wondered why materials would be locked and barricaded
> inside a room with a group of people yet there was still a dispute.
>
> "Why, the secrecy?" wondered the legislator, "I smell a big fat rat here
> because if IEBC received all the return forms, then what are these doing
> here?"
>
> He also noted that after the materials had been discovered; neither security
> officers nor IEBC officials had arrived at the scene to see what was
> happening.
>
> http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000079405&story_title=Kenya-Chaos-after-varsity-students-discover-IEBC-ballot-materials
>
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