[President Uhuru Kenyatta in a past event. His legal team has dismissed the idea of introducing crucial documents for scrutiny in court. Photo/Nation]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has rejected an attempt by the electoral body IEBC to allow scrutiny of original Forms 34A and 34B on grounds that all agents were provided with the same.
Through his lawyer Fred Ngatia, Uhuru further dismisses the proposal by NASA to have an access to IEBC servers adding that the request was not included in the petition.
Earlier, Paul Muite appearing for IEBC conceded that the commission would without haste provide the forms as requested by NASA lead counsel James Orengo.
“The laws are clear that additional of new evidence to a case prejudices other parties. It is wrong for IEBC to allow NASA to bring new evidence through backdoor,” he said during Saturday’s pretrial conference of Presidential petition in Supreme Court.
“On forms, NASA should have founded their case on similar forms awarded t their agents. This means they have no information and their case is based on fiction,” he added.
The seven bench judge will make rulings on whether IEBC should present the forms physically in court for manual scrutiny as proposed by NASA.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga is challenging reelection of President Uhuru Kenyatta on grounds that he was invalidly elected.