[Kenyans vote during the August polls. The country will agina go to the polls on October 26.] (Photo/capitalfm)
The African Human Rights Bureau now wants the UN to intervene and help kenya to avoid a repeat of the 2007/8 post-election violence.
The bureau is calling on the UN Security Council to step in, or risk losing the country which might slide into anarchy.
In a letter to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday, the bureau’s special counsel Dr Dan Alila said it was necessary to consider the country’s case as urgent.
“If no serious political intervention is made now by the UN, then Kenya could slide into a grave political instability with attendant chaos, violence, mayhem, and massive displacements and killings, thereby causing a humanitarian crisis,” said Dr Alila as quoted by the standard.
He added: “It is necessary for the UN to urgently consider the Kenya situation and consequently draw up a contingency rescue plan. An intervention by UN should logically lead to the setting up of a negotiated caretaker government to exercise executive powers during the repeat presidential poll,”
Alila joined the conversation to have a reformed IEBC to take charge of the pending election, or have an ad hoc UN committee to oversee the polls scheduled for the October 26.
“The establishment of an ad hoc UN committee to supervise the poll would eliminate cases of commission of deliberate irregularities based on planned fraudulent dealings and mischief,” Alila added.
Jubilee and NASA have been at loggerheads on how the polls should be done, with the IEBC caught in the middle as they are pushed to ensure there is free and fair election.