Nasa leader Raila Odinga (with microphone), addresses a public rally at Kipsongo in Kitale, Trans Nzoia, on October 22, 2017. He maintained that won't participate in the October 26 poll whose outcome, he said, has already been decided in favour Jubilee's Uhuru Kenyatta. [Photo: NMG]Constitutional lawyer Kibe Mungai has warned NASA leader Raila Odinga against the 'dangerous idea' of trying to prevent elections from happening in some areas of the country, especially in his strongholds.Mungai has said that this could amount to 'treason' which is a capital offence under the Kenyan law, punishable by death or life imprisonment."If you set out to prevent the formation of government through democratic elections as set by law, you are committing treason which as we know is punishable by hanging. By even NASA toying with this idea alone, many Western democracies have already started to perceive them as taking the shoes of an anti-democracy movement," Mungai on Sunday told KTN's Checkpoint show.However, Election Law expert Felix Owuor speaking at the same time, disagreed with the lawyer saying 'there is no greater act of treason than IEBC conducting a shambolic election'. "That is greater treason! The 2010 Constitution shifted elections from quantity elections to quality elections. That is why the Supreme Court did not just nullify the August 8 presidential poll just for the sake of it. The poll wasn't qualitative," Owuor said.He noted that politicians' interests have been privileged more than those of the common man because 'Kenyan elections are used to give politicians jobs after every five-year electoral cycle'.Raila Odinga has made it clear that there will be no elections on Thursday without electoral reforms. He has even promised to address the nation on the election day eve perhaps to expound on his 'no reforms, no elections' call.

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