Leaders of the National Super Alliance (NASA) through Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula have announced how they intend to carry out their demonstration today.
Wetangula stated that they would march peacefully on the streets of Nairobi to force the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) officials to resign and would not resort to violence.
Earlier, NASA had announced that they would storm the IEBC offices at Anniversary Towers to eject CEO Ezra Chiloba and his colleagues.
The protest comes even as the commission urged the NASA leadership to put off the demonstration to enable a joint consultative meeting between IEBC, Jubilee Party and the opposition coalition scheduled for Wednesday.
“The commission, nonetheless, recognising your inalienable constitutional right to picket and demonstrate, writes to request that you put off the planned protest to enable the joint consultative meeting scheduled for Wednesday (tomorrow) to address the concerns raised by the various parties,” IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati said in the letter to the Opposition last evening.
In the letter, IEBC also explained how it intends to conduct and manage the repeat presidential election.
NASA has set some conditions that the commission must meet before its candidate Raila Odinga participates in the October 26 election.
The list of “irreducible minimums” includes the personnel changes in which the opposition wants electoral officials, including commissioner Abdi Guliye, Mr Chiloba and his deputy Betty Nyabuto to be shown the door.
They also include reforms on election technology, identification of a new printer for the ballot papers as well as operational and logistical changes.
