A prayer for the IEBC- Raila announces National prayers.
Azimio la Umoja principal, Raila Odinga has announced national prayers that will be held in honour of the independent electoral and boundaries commission.
He stated that the prayers will be held outside IEBC’s main offices at Anniversary towers, along the University Way.
He stated,”This week, we shall be in Kisii on Friday, February 17 and go to Kisumu on Saturday, February 18. We will also be doing a prayer.”
“A prayer for the IEBC so that we get an IEBC that will defend the rights of our people and that prayer will be done in front of the IEBC premises sometime next week,” he added.
Raila maintained that the august elections were rigged and electoral justice must be upheld even if they use prayers.
He stated,”Do we wish to put these things under the carpet? Somebody got 5.9 million votes and the other got 8.1 million votes. Those are the facts and they cannot be swept under the carpet.
‘We must defend electoral justice in our country and what we have told our members of Parliament to do. This is a right nobody can take away from us,” he added.
This comes a day after president William Ruto held national prayers at Nyayo stadium. They interceeded for God to provide rains and turn away Kenya from its misfortunes.
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