Director of Dalex Finance, Joe Jackson, has said although Kenya’s Supreme Court has dealt with the election petition successfully, stakeholders across the African content must work to ensure that violence does not occur among the people within that country.
The apex court in Kenya on Friday, September 1, annulled the August 2017 presidential results. Citing irregularities, the Supreme Court said a new poll should be held within 60 days.
The election commission had declared incumbent, President Uhuru Kenyatta, the winner of last month’s election. But the opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, claimed that the commission’s IT system had been hacked to manipulate the results, for which he went to the court with a petition.
Commenting on this matter on TV3’s New Day on Saturday, September 2, Mr Jackson said: “First the EC’s IT director in Kenya was killed, his assistant was killed.
“I worry for Kenya not because the Supreme Court has been able to stand up, but because there is an undertone of violence that sits there and so what we should all be asking ourselves is, the Supreme Court has done its bit, how do we make sure that these incidences of EC officials being killed, violence and others do not occur again?
“It is time for well-meaning people to intervene. Persons like our own Kofi Annan can intervene, already his name has been mentioned on social media.”
Source:Ghana/AccraFM.com
