National Super Alliance (NASA) Presidential candidate Raila Odinga has spoken out against the changes to electoral laws tabled in the National Assembly by Majority Leader Aden Duale.
Speaking at Wiper Party Headquarters in Lavington on Thursday afternoon, Raila stated: "The Jubilee government is on the offensive and they are trying to reverse all the gains our people have made."
"They are trying to change the electoral system to one worse than what we had before 1997," he added.
He asserted that NASA would not relent in its calls for electoral reform and stated that countrywide protests would be held every Monday and Friday from next week.
The former Prime Minister also called out the Government for their decision to block Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka from travelling out of the country.
He noted that Kalonzo was with Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport(JKIA) as they tried to board a flight to Uganda, but only Kalonzo was stopped and informed that he and Raila need State House clearance to leave the country from now on.
He further noted that Kalonzo is the chancellor of a Ugandan university whose graduation ceremony is tomorrow, therefore the government was working to install a dictatorship in Kenya by barring his travel.
He also maintained NASA's position that there will be no election without reforms, stating: "They are trying to bring an election which they must win at all cost, then there's no point of going to an election."
The laws currently being debated in parliament propose changes that will reduce the powers of the IEBC chairman, accommodate a manual transmission system whose results are considered final and lessen regulation on security features for results and statutory forms.
NASA lawyer Paul Mwangi after storming out of a meeting with the IEBC stated: "The effect of the amendment is to change the rules of the game midstream.What was a foul previously is no longer a foul."
On Thursday morning, NASA MPs walked out of parliament after the Jubilee MPs managed to push the Bill on the amendments to election laws to the First Reading.
The Opposition MPs vowed they would not be part of the Bill they described as draconian and which is seeking to take Kenya 50 years back.
During the parliamentary session, Jubilee managed to push the Bill through to the First reading by virtue of their numerical strength with a vote of 144 against 53.
The Jubilee legislators are seeking to reduce the maturation period for two Bills to change electoral laws from 14 days to one day.
