CORD to issue directive on Okoa Kenya after failed IEBC meet
- 5 years ago
Opposition leader Raila Odinga was on Monday morning expected to give the way forward on the Okoa Kenya referendum drive after accusing the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission of not taking it seriously.
The Coalition for Reforms and Democracy has accused the IEBC of approaching the exercise of verifying the 1.4 million signatures of those in support of the referendum ‘flippantly’ and given failure of the commissioners to meet with them last week as proof of this assertions.
“When we were last here on February 16 they asked us to give them 10 days to complete the exercise. Those 10 days have come and gone,” Odinga’s co-principal Moses Wetangula said on March 15 when their call on the IEBC for an update came to naught.
The IEBC has however denied either snubbing the opposition leaders or approaching the signature verification exercise ‘flippantly.’
Chairman Issack Hassan said the Okoa Kenya secretariat had been informed that the commissioners would not be available to meet with them on March 15.
The Coalition for Reforms and Democracy has accused the IEBC of approaching the exercise of verifying the 1.4 million signatures of those in support of the referendum ‘flippantly’ and given failure of the commissioners to meet with them last week as proof of this assertions.
“When we were last here on February 16 they asked us to give them 10 days to complete the exercise. Those 10 days have come and gone,” Odinga’s co-principal Moses Wetangula said on March 15 when their call on the IEBC for an update came to naught.
The IEBC has however denied either snubbing the opposition leaders or approaching the signature verification exercise ‘flippantly.’
Chairman Issack Hassan said the Okoa Kenya secretariat had been informed that the commissioners would not be available to meet with them on March 15.