NASA leaders Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka, with some of their presidential petition, August 18. [Photo|standardmedia]
A witness in the National Super Alliance (Nasa) presidential petition against President Uhuru Kenyatta, in the August 8 polls, has indicated that Nasa leader Raila Odinga's votes were 'reduced' in different polling stations across the country.The witness, Embu County ODM chairman, Moses Wamuru, said Raila's votes were slashed to deny him victory against his opponent, Kenyatta.Odinga’s petition will as well rely on the supporting affidavit of Dr Nyangusi Oduwo, an economic advisor to Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho.This is after he scrutinised 5,000 Forms 34A used to tally the final results.Oduwo who was tasked to examine the forms supplied by IEBC Presiding Officers (PO) to Raila’s agents across the country, said they got 32,000 Form 34As out 25,000 forms which he exeamined. "After scrutinising them, I found grave anomalies in 14,078 forms,” Oduwo said, in an affidavit filed at the Supreme Court, seen by the Daily Nation.He said many of the polling stations within Rift Valley and Central Kenya regions sent away legitimate Nasa from the stations and replaced by them with imposters who created fictitious names and signed blank Form 34As, with the POs asked to fill in fictitious results as they desired in favour of President Kenyatta."11,481 Form 34As out of the total 25,000 he scrutinised bear no stamp as required by law. Logically, and as by law provided, any result contained in a prescribed Form 34A, which does not bear a stamp of the presiding officer, must therefore be treated as equally invalid,” Dr Oduwo said in the affidavit.In Kilome Constituency, Oduwo said the original IEBC Form 34B did not match Form 34B uploaded in the Commission’s portal.He wants the Supreme Court to nullify such ballots. According to him, IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba issued a directive invalidating any ballot paper that was not stamped on August 5, and directed that such be marked as rejected.