OPINION: 'It is a disappointing turn in what had initially promised to be Kenya's most transparent election,' says journalist Patrick gathara after Kenyan media suspended its vote count and electoral commissioners rejected results - with no reasons given.
Even the media in Kenya cannot explain in a comprehensible way how it came to William Ruto's election victory. After a day of relatively problem-free voting, nearly a week of counting and tallying up the ballots, and scanned forms containing results being openly posted on a publicly accessible online portal, the process has at the last minute degenerated into farce and acrimony.
A majority of commissioners of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission disowned the results on the final day, calling the process opaque. Among them was the deputy head of the commission, who in the preceding days had been at the podium in the tallying hall in Nairobi's Bomas of Kenya, declaring the very results she now seems to cast aspersions on., Kenyans stayed at home with schools and businesses closed.
Some suggested media counts had been hacked, and others that the forms on the IEBC's online portal — upon which media were basing their counts — had been compromised. Little evidence of this was offered, but the media's opacity fed such rumors.
At no point in the process, even as the results were being publicly declared, and scanned forms were openly available on the online portal, did they raise objections. And even after rejecting the results, the coalition said nothing about its intentions; whether it would challenge the result in court, or would pursue other means for redress. The four commissioners who dissented failed to give reasons for their dissent rather than the vague, and rather ironic, allegation of opacity.
In the last 15 years since the disastrous 2007 elections that resulted in widespread violence that killed over 1,300 people and displaced hundreds of thousands, efforts to reform the process have largely focused on the need to constrain the state, which has historically been most responsible for the violence and stealing that has characterized previous elections.
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