If you had asked me this question earlier last week I would have told you YES, let's congratulate President Uhuru Kenyatta for his reelection. Even as I questioned the results relays and was troubled by Kenyatta's constantly fixed 54/44 margin lead by Kenyatta throughout the transmitted results timeline - a major statistical anomaly. But since then, it has become increasingly hard to do so, given what we now know. Kenyans deserve the truth and their political will respected and upheld; to be led by leaders they duly elected at the ballot box and not "computer generated" ones as being alleged by NASA. Did the Jubilee government colluding with the IEBC, easily pull the biggest political heist of all time and will they get away with it? I felt that NASA wouldn't be able to articulate a strong enough counter-offensive to sustain a reversal of IEBC's declaration. After all domestic and prominent domestic and international observers applauded the Independent Electoral 7 Boundaries Commission (IEBC) for conducting a fair, free and peaceful elections; clearly they didn't want to be seen to tip the outcome one way or the other and were eager to conclude the elections as quickly as possible, it appears that their overarching goal was peace even if the process itself wasn't necessarily credible and trampled on the very democracy they were supposedly guarding i.e. an outcome that represented the people's will. NASA didn't seem to have a credible valve for recourse and perhaps that was by design … Continue reading
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