Our attention has been drawn to remarks made by CORD leadership today with respect to the verification of signatures presented to the IEBC purportedly in support of the Okoa Kenya referendum drive.
Once again the leadership of cord has tried to draw a nexus between the IEBC and Jubilee in their now monotonous chorus that IEBC is Jubilee and Jubilee is IEBC.
Provisions relating to the amendment of the Constitution are very clearly provided for in the law. One of the requirements in the law is that any effort to amend the constitution by means of a referendum must be supported by at least 1 million signatures.
We reiterate and assert our position that the IEBC cannot purport to verify signatures without involving the public as the IEBC does not have a repository of sample/ specimen signatures of voters.
We demand that the IEBC do publish to the public the names and signatures presented to them by CORD for the PEOPLE themselves to verify if indeed they appended their signatures in support of the referendum drive or if these signatures were procured fraudulently.
(We also note that in their press conference, CORD did not denounce the possibility of fake signatures; their only question is how did we know).
It is neither for Jubilee to determine the veracity of the signatures nor is it in the position of the IEBC to verify signatures they do not have.
IF THERE IS NOTHING TO HIDE; SIMPLY PUBLISH THE NAMES.
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