Africa-Press – Kenya. Azimio Leader Raila Odinga has called on the church to join the opposition’s push to have the IEBC servers opened. In a statement on Saturday, Raila took issue with the Conference of the Catholic Bishops who had termed the push as being unnecessary.
“We equally disagree with the characterization of our push for the audit of IEBC servers as unnecessary,” the Azimio leader said.
The ODM boss said the push for a forensic audit is guided by a core doctrine of Christianity, which is a belief in the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
“In this regard, and as we have stated before, we are guided by John 8:32 – “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free,” he said.
Saying that Azimio is curious and concerned about the sensitivities surrounding the IEBC servers, Raila said the orders of the Supreme Court were disregarded.
“During the hearing of the presidential election petition last year, the Supreme Court ordered that the servers opened for our scrutiny, only for the same court to ignore its own order and, in the final ruling, disregard the fact the servers were not opened,” he said.
Raila said the opposition prays that the church joins Kenyans in seeking to establish the truth about last year’s elections by having the servers scrutinized in the best interests of the nation.
Raila, however, applaud the church for embracing the position that the state needs to intervene and lower the cost basic commodities. As a party, we stand ready to partner with the church to pursue this matter in a much louder, consistent and unapologetic manner for the sake of suffering Kenyans.
However,Raila said, they do not agree with the church’s characterization of the public protests that Azimio has been leading as violent, unconstitutional or uncalled for.
“As we have stated in recent occasions, our protests have been and will continue to be peaceful unless the state unleashes police and goons on protesters,” Raila said. Instead, Raila called on the church to partner with Kenyans in calling on the State to respect section 37 of the Constitution
“Every person has the right, peaceably and unarmed, to assemble, to demonstrate, to picket, and to present petitions to public authorities,” Raila quoted the Constitution.
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