It has always been the case in many political rallies and manifestos. It all started as a slogan to woo votes from the under-35s, which they have always found a way to do. In the past, you could lie to people because social media was still in its infancy. Information could not be easily accessed and stored, except by the mainstream media stations. They would commit all the atrocities and get away with them because they dictated what should appear in the mainstream media. In fact, it was only KBC that had the outright privilege of doing the recordings, and everyone depended on this government media house and its affiliated vernacular stations for news. Our parents worshipped the state and feared to criticise the state for any wrongdoing. The few who raised their voices risked their lives, and most of them ended up in torture chambers. The likes of Raila Amollo Odinga, Achieng Oneko, Charles Rubia, and Paul Muite, among others, were young when they fought for the second liberation. ...
Dr.William Samoei Ruto
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It has been five days of knowledge dispensation by the learned friends as the supreme court played the host of the teams defending and making appeals. The August 9th general elections results announced by the independent electoral and boundaries commission's chairperson Mr. Wafula Chebukati was met with a lot of resistance from the azimio fraternity who claimed that the whole process was bungled. Led by their lawyer senior counsel James Agrey Orengo, the lawyers presented facts on how the process lacked what lawyer Willis Otieno termed as legitimacy. Among the evidence submitted to support the claims were the footprints left in the system as the intruders by the names Jose Carmago and CSilva tampered with the results, as per the server scrutiny report. In one instance, lawyer Julie Soweto presented a form that had the name of Jose Carmago, which was met by rebellion from the defense team, who claimed that it was an overlay. That led to the access of form 34A directly from the portal. One of the claims of the petitioners was that Chebukati who is the chairperson of the IEBC was dictatorial and that he did not involve the other commissioners. As the day came to a close, the big question is, who will the verdict favor? In what somewhat dealt a blow to the defense team, the deputy chief justice Philomena Mwilu claimed that the supreme court worked as a team and that none had veto power, contrary to how Chebukatiled the commission. She however insisted that they worked under the leadership of their leader. Could this be an indication of how the outcome will be delivered on Monday? Will it be by vote or a unanimous decision? We guess that it will be a unanimous decision that will be proved wrong or right on Monday.
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