US ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec. He and other Western envoys have issued a stern warning to politicians inciting chaos. [Photo: nairobiwire.com]Foreign envoys and diplomats have threatened to slap both NASA and Jubilee politicians with travel bans who are perceived to be inciting Kenyans ahead of repeat presidential poll on October 26.Sources within both Jubilee Party and Nasa, the Nation reports, did not divulge the details of the caution or the particular countries issuing it, but said the warning was the culmination of concerted efforts by the West to get the two sides talking and arrive at a middle ground on, among other things, how the repeat elections will be managed.The envoys, among them US’s Robert Godec and British Deputy High Commissioner Susie Kitchens, have been categorical that failure to hold the repeat polls as planned could plunge the country into a constitutional crisis.The diplomats, the paper says, are pushing the two parties to drop some of their demands and compromise, arguing that most of the requests cannot be met due to time constraints.Nasa has proposed a raft of proposals it has termed as 'irreducible minimums' among them sacking of IEBC officials implicated in the bungling of the August elections and the cancellation of tenders awarded to printer Al-Ghurair and technology company Safran Morpho.On the other hand, Jubilee has proposed controversial amendments to the electoral laws in a bill that seeks to reduce the powers of IEBC chairman and entrench the use of the manual vote transmission system, among other recommendations.Nasa has called for demonstrations against the IEBC on Monday to push through the changes they want at the IEBC before the polls. The 'peaceful' protests will also target the Election Laws (Amendment Bill 2017), which Jubilee has sponsored.

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