NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 31 – Opposition Leader Raila Odinga has asked President William Ruto to open the servers saying his victory was stolen hence the fear to heed the request by the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya.
Odinga has reiterated that he won the elections with 8.9 Million votes according to the revelations made by a whistleblower working at the poll agency.
“My people, they stole the election, the whistleblower clearly shows it. Otherwise, they’d open the server; what’s the fear? They then corrupted the Supreme Court like they did with the IEBC,” Odinga tweeted.
The Azimio La Umoja Leader stated that Monday will mark the end of the oppression of Kenyans due to the high cost of living and oppression of his demonstrators.
“Now they are stealing from Kenyans; refusing to subsidize the cost of living yet stealing from public coffers. At this instant they are shooting and killing Kenyans. It has to stop on Monday. Their time is up. Let them count down the hours till Monday,” he said.
On Thursday, Odinga announced the ‘mother of all demonstrations’ on Monday next week after police blocked him from accessing Jacaranda grounds on Thursday.
He said he will have no option but to mobilize more protests unless the Kenya Kwanza government addresses their concerns, among them the high cost of living and electoral reforms.
“We are very reasonable people and we believe that we have got very valid reasons on why we need to have a conversation but in the absence of preparedness of the other side to cooperate these demonstrations are going continue,” Odinga said, and declared that “On Monday there is going to be another demonstration. This will be the mother of all demonstrations which will take place irrespective of what our detractors say or think.”
Odinga, who addressed a press conference from his Karen residence after Thursday’s protests, insisted that despite the high-handedness of police officers to block Azimio supporters to stage protests in various parts of the country, they will not stop pushing for electoral reforms and lowering the high cost of living.
Odinga insists he won last year’s election in which he accuses President William Ruto of stealing his vote.
“I am saying that the IEBC servers must be opened so that we can know the truth,” he said, and demanded the reinstatement of four commissioners who disowned final results of the election which they claimed were rigged to favour Ruto.
Odinga contested the results in the Supreme Court but the petition was dismissed for lack of evidence.
He has criticized the ongoing exercise to re-constitute the electoral commission saying “it is an exercise in futility unless all players are involved.”
On Thursday, he criticized the violence meted on journalists by police officers during the protest in which several were injured after tear gas canisters were lobbed at their vehicle as they relayed live coverage.
