Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party candidate Bernard Imran Otieno Okoth has taken an early lead in Kibra by elections.
According to the results shared by ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna, In 160/183 reporting polling stations,Bernard Okoth has 21686 followed by Jubilee party’s McDonald Mariga who has 9685. The Valid votes cast are 35412 .
The Independent and Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has warned voters in the on going Kibra Constituency by-election against sharing pictures of marked Ballot papers on social media.
In a statement posted on its Twitter account, the electoral body has warned those to be violating the directive of dire consequences.
The commission asked voters to adhere to secrecy of Ballot violation stating that it is an electoral offense punishable by law.
The warning came after various pictures of marked Ballot papers were making rounds on social media on Thursday morning, hours after opening of the polling stations.
Two people have so far been arrested by the police since the mini-polls started in the morning for voter bribery allegations, the Chebukati led commission stated.
Voters began polling on early Thursday morning to vote for a new Member of parliament to succeed the late Ken Okoth. The polling stations opened on 6 am and is expected to close at 6pm.
ODM is trying to defend the seat through its candidate the brother to the late Ken, Imran Okoth while Jubilee on the other hand fielded veteran footballer McDonald Mariga.
New reports have emerged of voter bribery in Kibra even as voting goes on. The list of 6 suspects has been shared by top ODM officials on various social media platforms implicating among others a nominated MCA in the constituency.
The suspects allegedly received Ksh50,000 each from a 5 star hotel located on Lang’ata road and were giving out cash in Ksh200 denomination.
This has triggered a number of arrests with three people being apprehended by the police for questioning as confirmed by the Nairobi police boss Philip Ndolo.
Among those arrested in the Thursday morning incident include Lang’ata CDF committee member James Kipkorir.
Earlier on commotion ensued at the Mashimoni primary school where a man was caught bribing voters.Security has since been beefed up with heavy police deployment in the various wards in the constituency following alleged threats of violence.
Exiled lawyer Dr Miguna Miguna has issued his cry to ODM party leader Raila Odinga after court acquitted Ruaraka MP TJ Kajwang of treason charges.
The High court on Wednesday acquitted TJ Kajwang of the charges saying the case against the lawmaker was politically instigated.
Mr Kajwang had been accused of illegally administering an unlawful oath to ODM party leader Raila Odinga on the 30th of January 2018 at Uhuru Park Nairobi.
Kajwang’ and Miguna Miguna were at the centre of events at Uhuru Park that culminated in the “swearing-in” of Mr Odinga as the ‘people’s president’.
During the ceremony, Mr Kajwang’ donned a lawyers’ robe and wig and received a thunderous welcome by Nasa supporters as Miguna Miguna played the commissioner of oaths role.
Miguna is now questioning Raila why he has also not been acquitted of the treason charges against him.
He further questions Raila why his Kenyan passport has not been returned to him, asking further why he has not been allowed into the country after being deported to Canada.
“How about me, The People’s Con-Man @RailaOdinga? Why have I not been allowed entry into the country so that I can deal with the treason charges against me? Why hasn’t my valid Kenyan passport been returned by your fake brother Despot Muigai Njee Meta Meta/Kenyatta? ” tweeted Miguna Miguna.
Senators on Wednesday afternoon approved the adjustment of the National Assembly-backed revised borrowing ceiling to Ksh.9 trillion.
The approval by the Senate follows a vote on the motion on Wednesday afternoon with the proposed revision garnering the support of 30 of the 47 senators.
Out of the 37 senators present, only seven voted against the motion.
They are Mutula Kilonzo Jr (Makueni), Moses Wetangula (Bungoma), Boniface Kabaka (Machakos), Enock Wambua (Kitui), Samson Cherargei, Aaron Cheruiyot (Kericho) ,Mithika Linturi (Meru)
The new Ksh.9 trillion borrowing ceiling is expected to be anchored in law, replacing the current threshold of debt in net present value (NPV) at no more than 50 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as outlined in the Public Finance Management Act of 2012.
The vote also serves to unlock an estimated Ksh.421 billion in program loans support from both multi-lateral and bilateral partners whose signing was pegged on the allowance of further lending by government.
Among the projects lined up for new loans support include the construction of the Mombasa Gate Bridge and Konza City.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has validated the petition to suspend Taita Taveta County government.
This is after the electoral agency confirmed that the petition meets the required legal threshold of Section 123(2) of the County Government Act of 2012.
The electoral body verified that the petition presented to IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati last month is supported by 21, 861 registered voters of Taita Taveta.
Taita Taveta governor Granton Samboja in July signed a memorandum to initiate the petition, a move he termed necessary after longstanding wrangles between the executive and the county assembly culminated into an impasse over the county’s budget.
Mr Samboja said the wrangles had adversely affected development in the county and called for its dissolution to end the tussle after attempts to initiate dialogue between both factions failed.
ODM leader Raila Odinga, Council of Governors (CoG) chairman Wycliffe Oparanya and Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi were involved in talks to resolve the row between the county’s executive and assembly but proved unsuccessful.
Police in Siaya County have arrested a middle-aged man accused of killing his wife on Tuesday.
The suspect, identified as Joel Masiye, allegedly beat up his spouse to death over reasons yet to be known.
The incident happened at the couple’s home in Mundeku Village in Butere, Kakamega County.
It is said Masiye returned home while drunk and picked a fight with his wife. So vicious was the confrontation that it led to the death of Masiye’s partner.
After allegedly killing his wife, Masiye boarded a bus to his sister’s place in Siaya Town.
However, the suspect’s sister handed him over to police after he confessed that he had killed his spouse.
Masiye is being held at Siaya Police Station, whereas the deceased was taken to St Mary’s Hospital morgue in Mumias.
Police say they are investigating the matter, and will arraign Masiye once the probe is complete.
Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party has claimed that Deputy President Dr William Ruto’s Jubilee faction Tanga Tanga is planning to ferry non-Kibra residents to vote for their candidate McDonald Mariga in tomorrow’s (Thursday) mini polls.
According to ODM, the alleged people are to be ferried from Lang’ata and Embakasi constituencies.
The party further claims that vehicles has been hired to ferry the people who have been paid to vote.
In a video shared by ODM’s director of communications Philip Etale, vehicle operators who have been hired to ferry voters have been warned.
The non-Kibra residents who are planning to vote have also been told to step in Kibra at their own risk.
Jubilee’s Mariga will face off with ODM’s Bernard Okoth Otieno (Imran), ANC’s Eliud Owalo, Ford Kenya’s Khamisi Butichi among others on Thursday.
Watch the video below.
ODM communication boss Philip Etale is breathing fire just hours to Kibra parliamentary by elections.
Etale on Wednesday afternoon took to his social media accounts issuing out several claims on the Thursday battle.
While issuing out a series of threats, Etale alleges that on Tuesday night at around 10:00 pm a section of Jubilee party officials met with IEBC officials at Weston Hotel where bribing took place.
He says IEBC returning Officer Madam Beatrice Muli has briefed ODM on what IEBC officers were told and instructed to do by Jubilee officials.
He notes that ODM are ready for anything silly and fishy.
“The brown bags that exchanged hands last night at Weston Hotel from 10pm between Tangatanga and IEBC officials won’t help anything. Returning Officer Madam Beatrice Muli, tell us what your officers were told and instructed to do. Nonetheless, we in ODM are ready for anything silly and fishy,” posted Etale.
Etale in another post notes that as Jubilee plan to play dirty, they should know that the people they talk to, mingle with and share information with are feeding ODM with the same information.
“As they plan to play dirty, they should know that the people they talk to, mingle with and share information with are feeding us with the same information. They are not happy with their plans,” reads the post.
He notes further that IEBC Must produce the updated voter Register as it has been directed by the high court.
“IEBC Must produce the Register. Stories mingi baadaye. We mean business as O D M. Ni hayo tu kwa mukhtasari,” he posted.
In another video shared by Etale, ODM alleges that Jubilee officials are planning to ferry non-Kibra residents to vote in favor of McDonald Mariga tomorrow.
The party alleges that vehicles have been hired to ferry people from Lang’ata and Embakasi.
They issued a warning to those planning to be ferried and vehicle owners, threatening an action against them.
Watch the video below.
The High Court has acquitted Ruaraka MP Tom Joseph Kajwang popularly known as TJ Kajwang of treason charges.
The court says the case against the lawmaker was politically instigated.
Mr Kajwang had been accused of illegally administering an unlawful oath to ODM party leader Raila Odinga on the 30th of January 2018 at Uhuru Park Nairobi.
TJ Kajwang was on 31st January 2018 arrested outside Milimani Laws Court by plain clothed officers.
Kajwang’ and another lawyer, Miguna Miguna, were at the centre of events at Uhuru Park that culminated in the “swearing-in” of Mr Odinga as the ‘people’s president’.
During the ceremony, Mr Kajwang’ donned a lawyers’ robe and wig and received a thunderous welcome by Nasa supporters.
As Mr Odinga took the “oath”, Mr Kajwang’ stood right behind him, although his role remained unclear.
With just less than 24 hours left to Kibra by elections, the High Court has ordered the electoral board, IEBC, to furnish ODM with Kibra Constituency voters’ register before the by-election penciled in for Thursday November 7.
Justice James Makau said the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) violated ODM’s rights by denying the outfit access to the updated voters’ register.
The Commission was sued by ODM, who told the courts that IEBC literally refused to release to them or publish details of the new number of registered voters in Kibra.
In a suit filed at the High Court last Monday, ODM said it had written several letters to IEBC, seeking to be granted access to the voters’ register, but the agency did not heed their request.
IEBC asked the court to allow them seven days to furnish ODM with the information, but the judge declined to grant the respondents their request.
IEBC argued it was impossible to supply the register, given “there is a short time left before the November 7 by-election”.
Raila Odinga-led Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party Secretary General Edwin Sifuna has told off ANC party leader Musalia Mudavadi over his Monday remarks against ODM party leader Raila Odinga.
Sifuna has told Mudavadi to desist from unnecessary tirades against Raila.
According to ODM’s Tuesday evening twitter post, Sifuna says the former Vice Presidents’s remarks on Raila were baseless and unwarranted, and only aimed at attracting cheap political mileage which doesn’t come so easily.
“SG @edwinsifuna tells ANC Leader Musalia Mudavadi to desist from unnecessary tirades against PL @RailaOdinga. He says the former VP’s remarks on the PL on Monday were baseless and unwarranted, only aimed at attracting cheap political mileage which doesn’t come so easily,” tweeted ODM.
During campaigns for ANC candidate Eliud Owalo, who is Mr Odinga’s former aide in Kibra, Mr Mudavadi claimed that the ODM leader was desperate to an extent of courting “corrupt governors” with a promise of protection.
“Several governors were called to Kibra. Most of them who have swindled public funds from county governments and their files are already with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and are now hiding behind the old man (Mr Odinga) to be protected during investigations,” Mr Mudavadi said.
Last week, a handful of governors were in Kibra to campaign for ODM candidate Bernard Imran Okoth. They included Wycliffe Oparanya (Kakamega), Anne Waiguru (Kirinyaga), Alfred Mutua (Machakos), James Ongwae (Kisii), John Nyagarama (Nyamira), Charity Ngilu (Kitui) and Kivutha Kibwana (Makueni).
Sifuna claimed Mr Mudavadi was “the biggest baggage” Mr Odinga has had to carry since 2002.
“Now that Raila has taken away that support, Musalia needs to be a man,” Mr Sifuna said.
Mr Mudavadi’s outburst, Mr Sifuna said, must be seen in the context of “a jilted lover, a parasite abandoned by its long suffering host.”
He added: “Musalia must chart his own political path and shed the addiction to free manna from the direction and generosity of Raila Odinga. There will be no more salvage missions for political bagasse of the Musalia variety.
“The process of becoming a man is painful, hence the outbursts, but it is a journey he must now take. He must look himself in the mirror, for his imminent fall to oblivion is his own making.”
Mr Siguna further noted that: “Raila has made it clear that everyone accused of corruption or any other crimes must carry their own cross. Indeed, there are ODM governors in court facing various charges and if Raila were to shield anyone from prosecution he would have started with his own!”
A police officer is nursing injuries at Nanyuki Teaching and Referral Hospital after jumping out of his bedroom window mid-slumber.
It is alleged Harrison Karagu, who is attached to Nanyuki police post, jumped out of the window at 10pm Monday following a bad dream.
Karagu plunged 3 meters from the window stool. Police say the window had no grills.
He sustained cut injuries to his arms and legs.
The cop’s neighbours took him to hospital after the incident.
The matter was reported to Nanyuki Police Station in Laikipia East Sub-County under the OB No. 3/5/11/19.
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Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party on Monday wound up their campaigns in Kibra constituency to drum up support for their candidate Bernard Otieno Okoth (Imran).
Taking to twitter to share the photos of their final campaigns, ODM noted that they had committed Imran to God and left him in the hands of he people of Kibra.
“This is how we wound up our campaign in Kibra today. To God we commit our candidate Bernard Otieno Okoth (Imran) and to the people of Kibra, we leave him in your able hands. He has the oomph, energy, experience and the will to steer Kibra to the next level,” posted ODM.
On Thursday, Imran will face off with Jubilee party’s McDonald Mariga, Musalia Mudavadi-led ANC’s Eliud Owalo, Moses Wetangula-led Ford Kenya’s Khamisi Butichi among others.
Here are the photos.
Raila Odinga-led Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party’s communication boss Philip Etale has send a warning to Dennis Itumbi over Thursday’s Kibra by elections.
Etale who took to his social media accounts on Monday evening says tagging Itumbi claims that on Sunday deputy president Dr William Ruto made it clear that Jubilee candidate “ McDonald Mariga will be announced winner whether they like it or not”.
According to Etale, Ruto went further to say “they will know I am the Deputy President of Kenya”.
The seemingly angry Etale send a warning to Itumbi, saying that those sending him to troll him that “KIBRA INA WENYEWE” which loosely translates to Kibra has its owners.
“I want to make it clear to you and those sending you to troll me that KIBRA INA WENYEWE. Ni hayo tu kwa sasa,” wrote Etale.
Etale’s claims raises concerns on rigging claims as he notes that the DP said Mariga must be announced the winner whether they like it or not.
ODM candidate Bernard Imran Otieno Okoth will face off with Jubilee’s Mariga, ANC’s Eliud Owalo, Ford Kenya’s Khamisi Butich among others in the Thursday mini polls.