NASA leader Raila Odinga alongside fellow leaders address the press, November 18, 2017. [Photo|ODM]NASA leader Raila Odinga has issued a sneak preview of the talks he held with various leaders during his 10-days tour of the United States.He said Kenyans have shown in the last few months that they will no longer tolerate the theft of elections and the destruction of democracy. "That fact is now certainly known in the United States, as I discovered in last week in my many encouraging meetings there. I cannot disclose what was discussed, as these were all confidential," he said.He however quoted what Ambassador Mark Bellamy, the former Director for African Affairs in the State Department and a former US Ambassador to Kenya said at the public event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies where Odinga delivered a lecture on November 9.He said Ambassador Bellamy said: “Kenyans have shown that they do not accept authoritarianism or strong man rule prevailing in many parts of Africa. Kenya is therefore in political disarray. A sizeable portion of Kenyans doesn’t accept the legitimacy of the second 26 October election and a third election does not offer a way out of this crisis.”Addressing the press on Saturday, Odinga said the words were very powerful and very pertinent. "A third election does not offer a way out of the crisis because at the moment the IEBC is riddled with criminal elements who will never allow a credible election to be held.""From the very beginning of the election campaign season, the Jubilee Government has been accusing us of planning crimes which everyone now knows they themselves have been committing," he added.

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