Azimio has upped calls to disband the entire Supreme Court
Azimio has upped calls to disband the entire Supreme Court accusing it of contributing to fake democracy in Kenya.
The Azimio coalition led by the Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Narc Kenya Party leader Martha Karua wants the Supreme Court disbanded entirely on claims that it did not deliver a fair judgment on the August presidential petitions.
Azimio accuses Supreme Court of contributing to fake democracy, terming it as a danger to the quest for democracy.
Raila, Karua, and other petitioners had pleaded with the court to overturn the election results, which had declared President William Ruto the victor with 7.1 million votes.
The Azimio team has been contending since the verdict on September 5th that the supreme court was biased in favor of Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza Alliance camp and overlooked the evidence presented against the victory, arguing that the polls were tainted with anomalies.
And now, the Azimio coalition has upped its war on the Supreme Court claiming it failed in protecting Kenya’s democracy by upholding the election of President William Ruto.
In its criticism of the full judgment, the coalition claims that the apex court glossed over crucial evidence and allowed the electoral body to easily explain away grave violations of the law.
Paul Mwangi and Makau Mutua, two of the coalition’s top lieutenants, contend that the seven judges arbitrarily dismissed findings from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations that showed election tampering and denied Azimio instructions to examine voter identity kits.
The Supreme Court found that the voter identification kits used in the presidential election functioned as needed, although no equipment audit was conducted, according to the two lawyers, who criticized the decision.
The coalition asserts that although the judges acknowledged there were fierce boardroom fights at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, they contradicted themselves by ruling that the elections were conducted in accordance with the constitution (IEBC).
“The court finds, like it had to, that there was a boardroom rapture and that the commission has to act in unison, but curiously finds that there is no violation of the constitution. Indeed, the Court dismisses its own holding about all the members of the Commission being involved by calling the happening at IEBC ‘quorum antics’. It even says that the issue it had just ruled on would set “a dangerous precedent” if the judges were to follow their own decision on the issue,” Azimio said in its statement.
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Azimio further claims that the court allowed IEBC to interpret orders for scrutiny of its servers, which the coalition says led to a questionable inspection of the electoral body’s systems.
Raila Odinga’s coalition maintains that there were at least four foreigners that questionably accessed the IEBC’s systems during the elections, and faults the court for allegedly ignoring the issue.
“Shockingly, when the petitioners filed their own findings on the scrutiny demanded by court, the judges threw it out. They did not want to see the evidence,” Azimio said.
The Supreme Court, according to Prof. Mutua and Paul Mwangi, disregarded the fact that the IEBC unlawfully exploited the second set of results transmission forms, despite the fact that the presidential candidates had consented to have the booklets preserved unused within ballot boxes.
The lawyers assert that some parts of the inspection report on various polling places, which revealed that several of the booklets were missing, were ignored by the judges.
“This virulent attack on the petitioners’ advocates was not based on any evidence of forgery or fabrication … In the meantime, IEBC was never asked, and has not explained till today, what happened to Form 34A Book 2,” they said.
Raila Odinga’s charges believe that the Supreme Court acted as litigants by using words they deem to be harsh when dismissing the petition.
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