[Nasa principals Musalia Mudavadi, Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetangula. Photo/Courtesy]
Lawyer Aggrey Mwamu has dismissed claims by the independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) that National Super Alliance (Nasa) move to set up their own tallying centre is unconstitutional.
The former Law Society of Kenya (LSK) president argued that there is no law in the constitution excluding the opposition from having a parallel tallying centre during the elections.
“There is no clause in the Constitution that states that the Opposition or any Kenyan cannot have a parallel tallying centre to that of IEBC,” said Mwamu.
He added that any Kenyan or body is entitled to create a tallying poll in order to monitor the elections and counting of votes.
“The only thing that individuals or parties cannot do is to declare official results because that decree is vested in the IEBC,” he noted.
Jubilee on the other hand has accused Nasa for wanting to create a recipe of chaos in the country if they insist on having a parallel tallying centre.