I WILL BE SWORN IN ON 12TH

National Super Alliance (Nasa) leader Raila Odinga has vowed to be sworn in as president on Jamhuri Day, just days after the coalition’s top brass had ruled out the move. In what is set to open a fresh political battlefront between the opposition and the government, Raila told supporters he will ‘take oath of office’ on December 12.

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He made the remarks along Manyanja road in Umoja estate after his convoy was unable to reach the Jacaranda venue of a proposed Nasa rally, which resulted in confrontation between police and Nasa rioters. “(Tulisema wakiapisha, tunaapisha. Sasa nataka niseme hivi..kwamba tarehe kumi na mbili mimi nitaapishwa kama Rais na wananchi) On December 12, we will have an assembly that will swear me in as earlier promised,” Odinga told a charged crowd chanting anti-government slogans.

The swearing-in, he said, will be based on the results of August 8 presidential election, which he claims he won, but was rigged through manipulation of figures. Raila’s move is faced with legal constraints since President Uhuru Kenyatta was yesterday sworn in for his second term.

The law stipulates that only a candidate declared by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) as having been duly elected can be sworn in by the Chief Justice.

But the defiant Opposition leader told supporters in Manyanja, Embakasi and reiterated later in Kibera that powers will be bestowed on him by the citizenry where he will be the ‘People’s President.’

RAILA ASEMA ATAFUATA KATIBA

By SIFUMA Lilian-@sifumalilian
Kiongozi wa muungano wa NASA Bwana Raila Odinga amesema kuwa muungano wake utafuata sheria za katiba kuwasilisha lalama zao za kuonyesha kuwa hawana imani na serikali ya Jubilee, Haya yanajiri baada ya Bwana Odinga kuapa kuwa ataapishwa mnamo Disemba 12. Aliyasema haya kwenye barabara ya Manyanja  jijini Nairobi.

Odinga pamoja na wafuasi wake wameapa kutomtambua Rais Uhuru Kenyatta kuwa rais wa kenya wakisema kuwa hakuchaguliwa kwa njia halali

Picha ya Kinara wa NASA Raila Odinga

Akizungumza na kituo cha CNN Odinga alisema kuwa yuko makini katika kudumisha katiba na utawala wa sheria hata baada ya kusema siku ambayo ataapishwa licha ya hatua hiyo kusemwa kuwa ni ukiukaji wa katiba. Odinga aliongeza kuwa yuko tayari kwa mazungumzo.

KOSGEI TOPS THE RACE TO FILL MOI UNIVERSITY VC POST

Prof Isaac Kosgey has emerged top for the second time in interviews to pick a new Vice Chancellor for Moi University.

This comes amid bribery claims and fresh controversy over ethnic boardroom wars over the position. University Council chairman Dr Jeremiah Ntoloi declined to comment.

Prof Isaac Kosgei 

The results were forwarded to Education CS Fred Matiang’i. The interviews were done on Monday.

Kosgey, who has been the Deputy Vice Chancellor at Laikipia University scored 76 marks, acting VC Prof Laban Ayiro got 70 marks, same as Prof Ann Nangulu.

"WE WILL LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVE", NASA MPS WARN

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The National Super Alliance (Nasa) is faced with  another challengeafter a section of member parties threatened to move out over the composition of the leadership positions in Parliament. Things almost got out of control in the National Assembly yesterday after the alliance tabled names of four leaders of the minority, with MPs from the Coast region saying they had been shortchanged and were ready to “look elsewhere if the list is not withdrawn.

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The MPs drawn from coastal ODM and Wiper teams said they had withdrawn their names from the House committees which are in the process of composition. It all started after Speaker Justin Muturi read to the House a list of the Minority leadership which was presented to his office as he had directed before members went on the short recess.

NASA yet to submit committee nominees as Parliament resumes

The National Assembly will convene Wednesday morning while colleagues in the Senate will sit later in the afternoon.

Before going on recess, National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi and his Senate counterpart Kenneth Lusaka vowed to press on with the formation of the committees when Parliament convenes if the Minority Coalition will still not come up with its list.

The Minority Coalition had engaged the Speakers of both Houses of Parliament requesting for more time to come up with official lists of nominees and it remains to be seen which reasons they will offer in the eventuality they fail to produce the same.