ANC leader and NASA co-principal Musalia Mudavadi. [Photo/ bbc.co.uk]
NASA co-principal Musalia Mudavadi has called on opposition supporters to remain calm and peaceful as the Supreme Court handles the case in which NASA is challenging President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election.
Mudavadi said peace is paramount at this time taking into account more than twenty people recently perished following post-election violence that rocked some parts of the country following IEBC’s declaration that Uhuru won the presidential election.“We are in court. NASA is in court. We have decided to seek justice. We are in pursuit of justice and my appeal to you is to remain strong as we pursue fairness. We want to be able to make Kenya a [country] that will be respected by its own people and internationally,” he said in Mombasa during Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho’s swearing-in event Tuesday.“We have constantly said that democracy and the will of people must be defended at all costs. We do not want to have our democracy castrated so that when people go to the polls they are engaging in an impotent exercise.”“Our prayer as we go to the Supreme Court is that we know all Judges got the opportunity to work as judicial officers through the Judicial Service Commission according to the Constitution. And for us in NASA we are saying this time round we want to see the judgment of every Judge of the Supreme Court. We wouldn’t want two-minute judgments.”NASA last week Friday filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging Uhuru’s re-election.The opposition claims the presidential election was massively interfered with and the alteration favoured Uhuru and governors from specific counties where Jubilee won majority of the votes.