[VIDEO] Ignore Muigai's window-dressing, form interim government - Wandayi

Attorney General Githu Muigai speaks during a press conference in Nairobi, September 22, 2017. /REUTERS
Attorney General Githu Muigai speaks during a press conference in Nairobi, September 22, 2017. /REUTERS

Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi has suggested the formation of an interim government to manage affairs of the state and prepare the country for the next fresh presidential election.

Wandayi said the country is currently in a constitutional crisis and that "no amount of window-dressing can change that".

He said Kenyans can exercise their sovereign powers provided for in the constitution by forming an assembly with all manner of opinion and diverse interests to chart the way forward.

"I am suggesting the formation of a constituent assembly, which will deliberate and come up with an interim administration, which will then work on mechanisms that will enable a credible, transparent, free and fair election."

Wandayi, a fierce Jubilee Party critic and NASA supporter, said any further plans to carry out the poll are an exercise in futility.

"The truth of the matter is that the place we have reached as a country calls for extraordinary measures so the situation will never be the same again," he told a press briefing on Friday.

The legislator faulted Attorney General Githu Muigai for his statement that Kenya cannot have a caretaker government, and challenged him to tell the public the truth.

Earlier today, Muigai said President Uhuru Kenyatta is legally in office and will remain President until a swearing-in marks change of leadership. He also said Kenya will not face a constitutional or political crisis even if a planned re-run of its presidential election is delayed beyond the end of October.

But NASA chiefs Raila Odinga (ODM) and Moses Wetang'ula (Ford Kenya) have dismissed saying he is "either misreading the constitution or not reading at all".

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Wandayi further claimed the Jubilee government is anxious about the election but noted reforming IEBC, in line with NASA's demands, will ensure a fair playground for both parties.

He said

that following the elaborate judgment and pronouncement by the Supreme Court that IEBC committed several illegalities in the August vote, the agency

cannot be trusted to oversee

another poll without reforms.

The legislator

asked NASA principals not to have any more meetings with the commission regarding the re-run.

"The commission has found itself in a situation where its credibility and capacity to conduct any other election have been destroyed beyond repair," he said.

"It will be impossible for the country to hold the fresh presidential election slated for October 26 unless enough time is allocated to changes at the electoral agency."

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