• Azimio is at loggerheads with the Kenya Kwanza administration over the removal from office of the four commissioners, a process they have termed as punitive.
• The Suna East MP claims multiple cases have been filed by the Cherera Four but the judges appear to be reading from the same script on how to handle them.
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Azimio secretary general Junet Mohammed now claims that the courts are being arm-twisted on how to handle cases filed by besieged IEBC commissioners.
The Suna East MP claims multiple cases have been filed by the Cherera Four but the judges appear to be reading from the same script on how to handle them.
"Mtukufu Rais today advised us to go to court if we are aggrieved. I wish to inform him that five cases were filled by lawyers of The Cherera group in different courts and all the judges in those courts gave the same date for the hearing. 14th of Dec. Who is micromanaging the courts?" Junet posed.
His statement in a tweet on Monday was in response to President William Ruto's challenge for Azimio to seek redress in the court over the ouster process of the commissioners instead of resorting to protests.
Azimio is at loggerheads with the Kenya Kwanza administration over the removal from office of the four commissioners, a process they have termed as punitive.
Already, vice chair Juliana Cherera and commissioner Justus Nyang'aya have resigned leaving Irene Masit and Francis Wanderi at the mercy of a tribunal formed by Ruto to determine their fate.
They are accused of gross misconduct and violation of the Constitution after they openly and sharply differed with chairman Wafula Chebukati over the presidential results of the August 9 polls.
They said they could not own the results as the final phase of their verification was opaque.
Azimio has threatened a series of public engagements starting this Wednesday at the Kamukunji Grounds to denounce the removal of the commissioners from office.
Leader Raila Odinga and his deputy Martha Karua said on Monday Cherera and Nyang'aya were coerced into leaving office as part of a plot by the Ruto administration to put in office new commissioners who will help them rig the 2027 polls.
"What we can see is coercion and we can see the end game. The President wants a William Ruto electoral commission, this is what we must resist," Karua said.
During the press conference at Raila's Capitol Hill office in Nairobi, Karua lost her cool when journalists wanted to know if Raila was using the planned 'protests' to force a handshake with Ruto.
"You surely do not expect our leader to be responding to everybody who says something unfounded. You better go back to that source to give you facts to show that what he is saying is true," Karua said.