Lawyer Charles Kanjama. He believes the country started experiencing election difficulties immediately after independence. (Photo/zipo.co.ke)
Lawyer Charles Kanjama has reiterated that the country's election challenges are not recent hurdles to the electoral system.
According to Kanjama, the country's election problem began immediately after independence where the late President Jomo Kenyatta and Oginga Odinga had political differences that led to the postponement of elections from 1967 to 1969.
In his view, there has been no fair competition since then and he believes the situation was worsened by the one party state in former President Daniel Moi's era.
"The rain has not started beating us recently in our electoral processes. The problem stems back to 1966 where the same shenanigans being experienced now led to the postponement of the 1967 election to 1969. The electoral challenges were worsened by the one party regime which excluded fair competition," reiterated Kanjama.
Kanjama further disagreed with the idea that the repeat presidential election results should be nullified because some people have decided not to vote.
"The repeat election can only be nullified if problems are investigated by the Supreme Court in case a petition is submitted to challenge the results. However, the election cannot be nullified just because some people have decided not participate in the election," added Kanjama.
The lawyer made his remarks on NTV's Sidebar show on Wednesday evening during a political debate.