The National Super Alliance (NASA) has issued a damning statement about a ploy by the Jubilee Party to rig elections by using 42 police officers.
During a media briefing, NASA flag bearer Raila Odinga on Thursday stated that security agencies are being mobilised ahead of the August Elections and demanded answers from top authorities in the country.
"Today, we want to address a very specific aspect of this mobilisation and in turn demand very specific answers from the authorities to the country.
"Documents in our possession, and which we are sharing with the public, indicate that a team of 42 police officers has been assigned what the Kenya Police Service calls “Special Duties” via a circular dated 23rd June 2017.
"To perform the “special duties” the officers have had their kits withdrawn. They have been issued with clearance certificates and asked to report to police headquarters to be issued with discharge certificates on or before 2nd July 2017," said Odinga
The Opposition leader alleged that the officers had been picked from the various police formations including GSU, Kenya Airport Police Unit, Traffic, Dog Unit as well as the National Intelligence Service.
"Information at our disposal indicate that these officers will be recruited as polling clerks of the IEBC, of course with instructions from the Jubilee administration on how to behave.
"The recruitments going on now are not happening in isolation or out of the blues.
"They are products of panic strategy meetings by Jubilee that followed both the court rulings mentioned earlier and NIS polls that showed President Uhuru Kenyatta trailing by a huge margin," he remarked.
Raila also revealed that he had details of a meeting dated Nairobi, Friday 16th June 2017 "whose preamble said that an opinion poll commissioned by the NIS the week before had caused massive panic in government as it put the race at 30 per cent to 70 per cent in favour of NASA."
He went ahead to share a memo containing names of the 42 officers with the media.
"The Jubilee minutes dated Friday 16th June 2017 described a Raila win as “tragic” and said president Uhuru Kenyatta would out rightly reject the results and refuse to hand over power.
The NASA team went ahead to demand answers for the following questions from the Inspector General of Police:
a) What is the nature of the special duties the police officers have been assigned?
b) What is the current posting of the police officers in question?
c) What are the criteria that were used to identify the officers to be picked for these special duties?
d) Which other Police officers are involved in special duty assignments surrounding the upcoming General Election.
