NASA legislators have up to Friday to sign the swearing-in affidavit or find themselves in a list of shame to be published on the same day.
Speaking during a NASA press briefing at Okoa Kenya offices, Kakamega Senator Cleopa Malala, who is spearheading the affidavit drive, confirmed NASA will publish the list of shame of those legislators who will not have signed the affidavit by close of business on Friday.
“Those honorable members who have not ascended to the affidavit, as I was coming for this press briefing, most of the members have called, they are in an induction seminar in Mombasa and they are willing to sign,” Malala stated.
“It is for that reason that I am postponing the naming of those who have not signed until Friday morning,” he noted.
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The affidavit is one of the strategies the Opposition is using to have all its elected leaders support the controversial oath after reports that some leaders were not keen on the swearing-in plans.
Only 100 MPs had signed the affidavit by Friday out of NASA's 154 lawmakers in both Houses of Parliament.
In the affidavit, NASA legislators are acknowledging Odinga as the “People’s President of the Republic of Kenya, having been duly elected by the people of Kenya on August 8, 2017”.
NASA puts the nullified August 8 figures at 8,634,731 votes for the NASA leader against President Uhuru Kenyatta's 7,675,162 and intends to swear Odinga using the figures.
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The affidavit also dismisses the October 26 repeat presidential polls, which the Opposition boycotted because they were conducted by the same poll body they claim failed to comply with Supreme Court order on opening servers.
