NASA leaders at Maanzoni Lodge in Machakos, November 25, 2017. The leaders have accused Jubilee of intimidating the Supreme Court. [Photo|ODM Party]The National Super Alliance (Nasa) has said the incumbent Jubilee administration has usurped power by subverting elections and intimidating the Supreme Court into upholding a sham election. This usurpation of power, Nasa said, is the culmination of a determined effort by the Jubilee administration to dismantle the new Constitution. "It is a replay of the machinations that were employed by the Jomo Kenyatta administration to dismantle the independence Constitution and establish a one party dictatorship centered on an all-powerful presidency."According to the coalition, the Jubilee administration’s mission is to take Kenyans back into a centralised dictatorship, back to human rights abuses, repression of political rights, exclusion and economic marginalization of regions and communities which refuse to toe the line. "The institutionalization of sham elections will mean that sycophancy will again supplant the will of the people and become the shortest and surest route to elective office," said NASA, in a statement read by Musalia Mudavadi.Addressing the press after a meeting in Machakos, NASA said Kenya was now divided between those who are prepared to accept dictatorship as a fait accompli, and those who will resist it to the end. "This divide cannot be bridged by dialogue and compromise. There is no halfway house between democracy and dictatorship. It is either, or. There is no halfway house between rule of law and law of the jungle. It is either or. There is no halfway house between free and fair elections and sham elections. It is either or," Nasa said, Saturday.Mudavadi emphasised that a return to the political backwardness of Kenya's past is more than unacceptable and intolerable.

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