Kenyan opposition allege election fraud

Описание: (15 Aug 2022)
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Nairobi - 15 August 2022  
1. Various of William Samoei Ruto, presidential candidate, arriving at the Bomas of Kenya
2. Saitabao Ole Kanchory, chief agent of Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party, in crowd
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Saitabao Ole Kanchory, Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party chief agent:
"We have intelligence and reports that their system was penetrated and hacked and that some of the IEBC (Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission) officials actually committed electoral offences and some of them ought to have been arrested if they were not arrested."
4. Various of Ruto's mother Sarah Cheruiyot arriving at the Bomas of Kenya
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Saitabao Ole Kanchory, Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party chief agent:
"The members of this commission we believe led by Wafula Chebukati himself, were busy tampering and tinkering and manipulating those results. We know that they granted access to strangers to manipulate the results of this election."
6. Governor of Kitui Charity Ngilu arriving
7. SOUNDBITE (English) (unknown name), aide to Charity Ngilu:  
"For Raila (Odinga) 7,309,259 that is 50.1%. For William (Ruto) 7,165,787 percentage is 49.13."
Charity Ngilu: "Exactly."
8. Wide shot of officials at the VIP waiting area
STORYLINE:
Presidential election contender Raila Odinga's chief agent alleged electoral offenses after Kenya’s electoral commission declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner on Monday.
Speaking shortly after the results were announced, Saitabao Ole Kanchory told the media in Nairobi: "We have intelligence and reports that their system was penetrated and hacked and that some of the IEBC (Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission) officials actually committed electoral offenses and some of them ought to have been arrested if they were not arrested."
Ruto received 50.49% of the vote, the chairman of the commission said, while Odinga received 48.85%.
But chaos emerged just before the declaration when the electoral commission’s vice chair and three other commissioners told journalists they could not support the “opaque nature” of the final phase of the process.
"The members of this commission we believe led by (IEBC Chairman) Wafula Chebukati himself, were busy tampering and tinkering and manipulating these results," Saitabao Ole Kanchory said.
Now Kenyans wait to see whether Odinga will again go to court to contest the election results in a country crucial to regional stability.
This is likely the final try for the 77-year-old longtime opposition figure backed this time by former rival and outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta, who fell out with his deputy, Ruto, years ago.
Candidates or others have seven days to file any challenge over the election results. The Supreme Court will have 14 days to rule.
The 55-year-old Ruto, despite being sidelined by the president, fought back and told voters that the election was between “hustlers” like him from modest backgrounds and the “dynasties” of Kenyatta and Odinga, whose fathers were Kenya’s first president and vice president.
Odinga has sought the presidency for a quarter-century.
Ruto in his acceptance speech thanked Odinga and emphasized an election that focused on issues and not ethnic divisions, saying that "gratitude goes to millions of Kenyans who refused to be boxed into tribal cocoons."
He added that people who had acted against his campaign “have nothing to fear ... There is no room for vengeance.”
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