Uhuru still illegitimate president, resistance on, Raila tells BBC

Opposition leader Raila Odinga of the National Super Alliance coalition speaks during an interview with Reuters in Nairobi, November 7, 2017. /REUTERS
Opposition leader Raila Odinga of the National Super Alliance coalition speaks during an interview with Reuters in Nairobi, November 7, 2017. /REUTERS

Raila Odinga has told BBC that Uhuru Kenyatta's presidency remains illegitimate, just hours to the Jubilee leader's swearing-in for a second term.

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The Opposition leader and former Prime Minister told an interview on Tuesday morning that NASA will continue to push for electoral reforms through civil disobedience.

"We will ensure electoral justice. The struggle will continue through civil disobedience, demonstrations and boycotts until there is electoral justice."

Raila added that the issues he has raised "must be addressed or there will be no country".

"We need to reform the IEBC and ensure an independent judiciary and the neutrality of security forces," he said.

He further said the Opposition will use people's assemblies to push for major changes.

Uhuru won the original August 8 election but Raila objected at the Supreme Court, which invalidated the victory over adherence to electoral laws and the constitution, and order a repeat.

The veteran Opposition chief then boycotted the October 26 repeat citing lack of reforms at IEBC and gave a list of "irreducible minimums".

Since that time and after being "ignored" by IEBC, he has transformed the National Super Alliance into a National Resistance Movement, ordered the boycott of products by Safaricom, Bido and Brookside Dairies and pushed for people's assemblies at county level.

The companies have been accused of siding with the Jubilee administration. Safaricom has denied allegations it engaged in rigging.

Protests amid the opposition have resulted in the deaths of NASA supporters who are to be honoured at a memorial service at Jacaranda grounds today.

Police have prohibited this meeting saying they were not notified by NASA leaders have been defiant.

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