Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 09:34:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tebiti Oisaboke
Poor old man Kivuitu is a sick and arrogant man who has embarrassed and let Kenyans down for a long time. It’s time for this old-man to retire peacefully to his Ukambani home if he expects to enjoy his pension and the corrupt 10M Kshs. he was awarded by the MKM brigades to sell the presidential certificate to their homeboy. How can he decline to answer questions posed to him by the pressmen and refer them to “whoever gave them that report”. This is a very irresponsible answer which is tantamount to abandoning his job. If all he does is sleep in his office and caught unaware when asked questions by our messengers, then he needs to retire to Masaku village and sleep there for the rest of his life. Kenyans don’t need folks like Kivuitu as their election referees if he doesn’t know how to operate a whistle by himself. We need people who are quick and capable in thinking and give congruent answers to the public. He is NOT even remorseful for what he has caused Kenyans so far. He needs to go and apologize to Kenyan refugees living in various parts of Kenya and Uganda instead of acting silly and stupid!!!
And that is my two cent opinion.
TOI
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Kenya: ECK Declines to React to ‘Serious Mistakes’ Report
The Nation (Nairobi)
3 April 2008
Posted to the web 2 April 2008
Muchemi Wachira
Nairobi
The Electoral Commission of Kenya on Wednesday declined to react to a report saying it had admitted making serious mistakes in the way it conducted last year’s elections.
“We are not aware of such a report and we are only reading this in the papers today (Wednesday),” an ECK official said.
The report, said to have been compiled by ECK commissioners during a recent workshop in Kilifi, pointed out several irregularities in the election process.
It says that there was no communication between presiding and returning officers during the elections, whose disputed results sparked countrywide violence.
The ECK official, who did not want to be identified, said chairman Samuel Kivuitu was shocked to read the story on Wednesday.
“The chairman will not react because he does not know the source of the report,” the official said.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mr Kivuitu chaired a meeting of the ECK staff at his office.
It is not clear what was discussed, but sources said the chairman expressed concern at the report, which he believes was leaked to the Press by some commissioners or members of staff.
“The chairman has said that whoever gave you that report should react to it,” the official said.
According to the report, the black books used to assist voters whose names were missing from the official registers and those who were registered more than once could not be used because they had not been updated.
The report was given to the press by lobby group, Peace with the Truth and Justice, on Monday.
Mr Kivuitu declined to answer calls from the Nation.
The commissioners said the issue was so sensitive that, only the chairman could react.
ECK in spotlight
The report says that returning officers gave certificates to losers in some constituencies while others changed the names of people to whom certificates had been given. There were several irregularities in the whole election process, the report says, and this prompted some lobby groups to react.
The lobby said it would join those seeking to start private prosecutions against ECK staff and commissioners.
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