Raila hits out at American Ambassador at private meeting
Raila hits out at American Ambassador,Meg Whitman at private meeting over her claim Kenya had transparent elections in 2022
Raila hits out at American Ambassador,Meg Whitman at private meeting over her claim Kenya had transparent elections in 2022.
Azimio leader Raila Odinga has hit out at the United States(US) Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman for undermining democracy by claiming that the presidential results of the August elections were fair.
The Azimio leader claimed on Friday, March 31, that in a private meeting with the ambassador, she asked him to accept the election results and stop the mass protests.
“She was saying that Kenya had the most transparent election in the history of Kenya last year in August.
“I told her that she did not know what she was talking about. She was in the country a few days before those elections took place,” Raila stated.
In reference to Cherera four, he added that if four out of six members of an electoral commission in the US had rejected election results, the international community would not have deemed that as transparent and fair.
“The election commission consisted of seven members, the chairman and another member saying yes and four members saying no.
“I asked her that if that happened in America, that four members of the electoral institution rejected the results and two accepted them, would it be considered a free and fair election?,” the Azimio leader questioned.
Raila added that Kenyans had a right to question what had happened during the electoral process to ensure that the error was not repeated in the next elections.
“Kenyans have a right in light of the new information that emerged to question the results which were announced. That is how electoral democracy is built.
“They must allow Kenyans to make a decision of their own. We demand that the servers are opened so that we can continue to interrogate the results in the servers, ” Raila added.
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Raila made the statements during the burial ceremony of Kenya’s first female Member of Parliament (MP) Grace Onyango in Siaya County.
In addition, Raila called out Azimio leaders who had joined Kenya Kwanza asking them to resign because they had been elected under the coalition by those who believed in the vision of Azimio.
He further reiterated that the mass protests would continue until their demands were met.
Raila’s statement comes after the American Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman claimed Kenya had tranparent and fair elections in histry of the country.
“Kenya held free, fair, and most transparent elections in the country’s history this past August,” she said.
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