After sensing defeat going by the latest polls only 17 days to the plebiscite William Ruto, the de facto leader of the NO team now argues that for the constitution to be acceptable, it must adhere to international standards for referendums. This is somewhere at 41% by those standards.
However, Ruto has raised his to a laughable 65% after realising that more than 64% of Kenyans are likely to vote YES and pass the KATIBA.
This is the same Ruto who has been going round condemning international laws and treaties becoming part of our laws if we pass the draft and now he is comfortably applying international standards. It is amazing that these international standards and principles are suitable when they favour his thinking but “very bad” for Kenya when they don’t favour his thinking.
This is a selfish man, irredeemably. What will surprise Ruto and cohorts is that this draft is likely to pass with over 80%. Usually, the undecideds join the winning side. YES stands at 64% and growing plus another 20% undecided, the KATIBA is home and dry. NO is stuck at 20% for the last several months.
It must be worrying Ruto that NO is stuck at 20% ever since they started spirited campaigns that have cost them time and money. Nothing seems to change, Kenyans seem decided to pass this draft.
What Ruto and team should know is that in Kenya, we go by the majority vote, the majority of those who vote irrespective of the total numbers. So in our case, we only need about 50%+1 of those who actually take part in the vote, not the total registered voters.Voting is not compulsory in Kenya.
Otieno Sungu