Group wants IEBC be compelled to release tallied provisional Presidential Election results within six hours after closure of Polling stations.

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 Laywer Ken Amondi of Amondi and Company Advocate who is representing the petitioner in a case where he wants the court to compel IEBC to release tallied provisional results of the Presidential Election six hours after the closure of polling stations-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo


 By DICKSON ODHIAMBO.
      
 June 13, 2017.

 A YOUTH Group has moved to court wanting the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission {IEBC} to be compelled to release tallied provisional results of the Presidential Election in the forthcoming General Election in August this year.

The group known as SUMAWE Youth Group from Kisumu West Sub-County within Kisumu County wants the IEBC which is the respondent in this matter be compelled by court to release tallied provisional results of the Presidential Election six hours after the closure of polling stations across the country during the August polls.

Through Lawyer Ken Amondi of Amondi and Company Advocates, three petitioners certify the petition as urgent.

 The three petitioners namely Titus Alila, Jackline Otieno and Francis Ogada of the SUMAWE Youth Group moved to High Court in Kisumu on Monday this week while arguing that past experience has shown that delay in announcing Presidential Election Results is a harbinger for creating anxiety, confusion and at worst violence.

In a sworn in affidavit by one of the petitioners Titus Okoth Alila has said that the respondent in this matter has singled sourced for the supply of shs 3.8 billion on the issue of Integrated Election Management System in the country which would among others ensure electronic transmission of the Presidential Election Results from the polling station to the national tallying center.

The petitioner says he believes that it would be the legitimate expectation of the Kenyan taxpayer that in the view of Integrated Election Management System, IEBC should be in a position to announce the provisional winner of the Presidential Election according to the Provisional Election Results for the entire country within eight hours of the closure of the polling stations.

High Court Judge Justice Cherere certified the matter as urgent and ordered that the respondent be served.

The Petition is mentioned on June 19 this year.

The Petition comes barely near two months to the next General Election to be held in August this year.

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