CHAOS EMERGES AT CHEBUKATI’S MEETING WITH RAILA & RUTO

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) meeting with presidential candidates at a city hotel was temporarily halted after a perennial activist interrupted the proceedings.

The activist identified as Julius Kamau, on Wednesday, June 29, interrupted the session arguing that the IEBC was being used by some powerful people to hold the country hostage.
Armed with a banner, the activist took to the floor as the IEBC CEO, Marjan Hussein Marjan, was addressing the presidential contestants.

Security officers, however, moved in swiftly and whisked him away.

Notably, this is not the first time Kamau was disrupting a meeting called by Chebukati. On May 23, the activist tried to disrupt IEBC’s chairperson speech at Bomas of Kenya.

Kamau approached Chebukati and began chanting anti-government slogans demanding that the country be freed from poor governance.
He further claimed that a majority of Kenyans were living like slaves yet their forefathers had fought for the nation’s independence to better subsequent generations’ lives.

“They have stolen our future, they have stolen our country. We cannot continue living like slaves in our own country. Our fathers fought and died trying to free this nation from the shackles of colonialism,” Kamau lamented.

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A police officer, with the help of three other men, however, intercepted the charged man and whisked him out of the hall even as he relentlessly continued to rant.

Last week Chebukati invited all presidential candidates to a consultative meeting aimed at ironing out issues such as register of voters, election results path and harmonisation of their campaign schedules.

Key on the agenda is the transmission of election results and the use of manual voters register as a backup to the electronic one.

Kenya Kwanza presidential candidate, William Ruto, and his running mate, Rigathi Gachagua, however, skipped the meeting and were represented by Turkana Governor, Josephat Nanok, and UDA Secretary General, Veronica Maina.

By Kenyans