Kenya’s President William Ruto on Tuesday, April 11, chaired the Kenya Kwanza Parliamentary Group meeting at the State House.
The meeting mainly focused on some of the issues raised by the opposition leader Raila Odinga including the opening of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) servers for the 2022 polls.
Raila who has maintained that he got 8.1 million votes against Ruto’s 5.9 million, has demanded that he be allowed access to IEBC’s electronic voter transmission data to prove who between him and Ruto got more votes than the other.
However, speaking on behalf of the Kenya Kwanza alliance, National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung’wah dismissed former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s push to have the servers opened.
The youthful legislator said the ruling coalition had no keys to IEBC servers and asked the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party to seek redress from the Supreme Court.
“We have no key to IEBC servers. We only have keys to open the economic servers. The opposition is within its rights to seek a review under the constitution from the Supreme Court on the issue of any servers that they think was not done by the same Supreme Court,” Ichung’wah said.
At the same time, Kenya Kwanza Alliance dismissed the push to reinstate the four IEBC commissioners who disputed President William Ruto’s presidential win.
The four commonly referred to as ‘Cherera Four’ included IEBC vice chair Juliana Cherera, Justus Nyang’aya, Francis Wanderi, and Irene Masit.
Raila who suspended his weekly anti-government protests to engage in dialogue with William Ruto raised several demands he termed as irreducible minimum before agreeing to talks with the Head of State.
Among them was the opening of the IEBC servers insisting that he won but the IEBC and the Supreme Court rigged him out in favor of William Ruto.
