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Kenyatta Ready For Election, Asks Chief Justice Not To Interfere

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday said he and his party are ready for election as ordered by the Supreme Court. The President, however, cautioned … Continue reading Kenyatta Ready For Election, Asks Chief Justice Not To Interfere


Kenyatta Ready For Election, Asks Chief Justice Not To Interfere
File photo: Uhuru Kenyatta, Odinga
Kenyatta Ready For Election, Asks Chief Justice Not To Interfere
File photo

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday said he and his party are ready for election as ordered by the Supreme Court.

The President, however, cautioned the Chief Justice not to interfere with the electoral body so the polls could be conducted as soon as possible.

Kenyatta also repeated his message from Friday that he would respect the court’s ruling.

“Let me tell him; we’ve been here before, they chased out the old IEBC. If you have accepted all the rest of the results, let us accept the ruling,” he said.

“(Chief Justice David) Maraga, don’t interfere and don’t think because our friends shout and we keep quite that we are scared of you. No, we are not.

“You’ve done your ruling, we have respected it; let IEBC do their job, let them declare the date and Raila (Odinga) let us meet at the ballot.”

It is the second time since the apex court’s ruling that Kenyatta issued a critical comment in public about the judiciary.

On Friday, during an impromptu rally in Nairobi, the President criticised the court for ignoring the will of the people and dismissed the chief justice’s colleagues as “wakora” (crooks).

Elsewhere, Chief Justice Maraga had said the Supreme Court’s verdict was backed by four of the six judges and declared Kenyatta’s victory “invalid, null and void”.

Reuters