ODM Statement on Voter Registration Malpractice

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It has been brought to our attention that some IEBC registration clerks are working in cahoots with some individuals to frustrate ODM party members, supporters or anyone perceived to be sympathetic to ODM party during the current registration exercise


Some of our members and supporters particularly from Western, Nyanza and Coast have been issued with cards with missing serial and electors’ numbers for reasons only known to the clerks.

In Bungoma, there have been cases where individuals have gone to register only to discover that their ID numbers had been used to register other individuals from other constituencies such as Nyeri.

We are also getting reports that some registered voters are being lured into selling their details for petty sums as paltry as Kshs. 200

ODM party feels this is a deliberate move by the IEBC or its agents to rig out the party in the national elections as early as now.

We call on the IEBC to investigate these claims and take action if it is to retain its reputation as an independent, fair and credible body mandated to deliver clean elections for Kenyans.



In Marsabit the following pollng stations have been merged and the faulty machine is being used to register voters at the rate of 50 people per day.

• FURAHA NURSERY
• SKM PRIMARY SCHOOL
• AL HIDAYA PRIMARY SCHOOL
• MARSABIT FULL PRIMARY SCHOOL

In Laikipia North the same is true about the following polling stations

• DOL PRIMARY SCHOOL
• KURI KURI PRIMARY SCHOOL
• SIOR MOBILE
• SEEK MOBILE

It has also been noted that some BVR units are operating offline which means records can be led to a local database, be transferred by statisticians to a central subsequently there is a high chance of voters losing out in the process or being rejected during voting due to lost records in the transfer process.

There is need to verify information collected from voters before registration exercise comes to an end or before voting to ensure that those registered are indeed registered.



Hon.Prof. Anyang Nyong’o
SECRETARY GENERAL

PM Raila Visits Eastleigh and Condemns Terrorism

Nairobi, November 22, 2012 PMPS
Prime Minister Raila Odinga today strongly condemned the recent terrorist attacks in Eastleigh, Nairobi and in Garissa saying the government will ruthlessly deal with the perpetrators of the violence against innocent people .

He made it clear that the government will not let terrorism to take root in the country adding whether it is the infamous Al Shabab or any other terrorist group will meet the full wrath of the law. “As a government, we will not abdicate our responsibility to provide security to people and their property,” he added.

The PM was speaking in Eastleigh , Nairobi where he went to console those who were affected by the recent terrorism incident in the area in which seven people lost their lives and property worth millions of shillings destroyed.

Mr. Odinga who arrived in the country today after a week long official visit to Malaysia and Korea also lashed out at xenophobic attacks against members of the Somali community after a terrorist hurled a grenade in a matatu plying the KiKomba-Kariobangi route killing the seven people and injuring several others.

He appealed to all Kenyan communities to live peacefully together , saying all Kenyans should enjoy equal rights irrespective of their ethnicity. He said, “Our diversity is should be our source of strength and not weakness.”

The Prime Minister especially called for religious tolerance among people of different faiths saying terrorism transcended religion , race, and tribe adding criminals must be treated as individuals not as members of a tribe by apportioning blame to their tribes.

The Premier at the same time called on eligible Kenyans to register as voters in the ongoing voter registration exercise to be able to participate in the March 4th. general election and elect leaders of their choice.

Mr. Odinga noted that once again Kenyans have an opportunity to change the leadership of this country , which he blamed for the slow pace of development in the last fifty years. “It is only through the power of the ballot that you can effect that change,” he added.

He recounted that Kenya and Korea were at par economically at Kenya’s independence in 1963, but due to poor leadership Kenyans were still wallowing in poverty yet Korea was now a developed country.

He said,“ This poor state of affairs in our country is what I intent to change in the first five years of my Presidency so that we can attain newly industrialized status like Korea.”

Mr. Odinga who is ODM party leader lauded Bishop Margaret Wanjiru who was present for resisting attempts to woo her into joining tribal based parties. He noted that Bishop Wanjiru has stood resolutely in support of ODM despite being enticed to decamp by tribal bigots.

Deputy speaker Farah Maalim , Bishop Wanjiru and Kamukunji MP Yusuf Hassan also condemned terrorism saying Kenyans should not play into terrorists’ hands who want to set Kenyan communities against each other as they have done to Somalia.

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Prime Minister's Appeal on Voter Registration: To the People of Kenya

REPUBLIC OF KENYA 

PRIME MINISTER’S APPEAL ON VOTER REGISTRATION: 

TO THE PEOPLE OF KENYA 

SINCE the bloody uprising that shattered our image as a nation of peace and tranquillity following a disputed election at the end of 2007, Kenya has regained much ground, thanks to our ability to make compromises and look forward.

I believe all of us have made compromises. Your President, Mwai Kibaki did. Your Prime Minister, Raila Odinga did. The supporters of the main parties to the conflict, ODM and PNU, compromised too. Only the compromises have enabled us to move this far.

Only with the understanding of our supporters have we, the Two Principals to the Grand Coalition, been able to take the nation this far. As we set on the path of governing through coalition, we had no precedence to borrow from.

Under the guidance of President Kibaki and myself, we simply set on this path trusting that the people of Kenya, and the luck of history would be on our side. The President and I trusted that we were acting in the best interest of the nation. In many ways, and despite many set backs, luck, history and our people have been on our side.

Two years into the Coalition, we, the people of Kenya, endorsed a new political system, embodied in our globally acclaimed new constitution. In a short span, we recovered our breath, lifted and dusted ourselves and decided to forge ahead as the region’s economic motor and diplomatic nerve-centre.
We have done so much in five years. We have so much to lose should we get reckless again. We have so much to do in the next five years and beyond.

• Think about the crime and insecurity that continue to keep our people down. 
• Think of the traffic jams in Nairobi that make us waste valuable time on the road instead of getting to places of work in record time and build our nation. 
• Think of the close to 60 per cent of Kenyans living in squalid slums. 
• Think of the millions of our young people looking for working and finding nothing.
• Think also of our strengths that we could easily make better and leave competitors far behind and move ahead as the nation for the rest of Africa to look up to. 

We have the best banks, hotels and services in the region. We have the biggest road-building projects in the region. Our mobile-phone penetration is the highest in the region. Our money-transfer services have attained worldwide acclaim. Nairobi is the region’s air-traffic hub. It has also become the place in Africa where people come to make global diplomatic decisions. Only Johannesburg and Pretoria beat us.

We have attained much of these because of the decisive step we took in 2002 to go for change peacefully through the ballot. All these gains and more could continue and get better or they could be reversed, depending on how we conduct our next elections.

I believe that we are moving ahead, sadder but wiser, determined never to repeat the mistakes that took us to the precipice and back in 2007-2008 period.

Today, we begin another process that should ensure our future gets brighter and more secure. Today, the Government, led by President Mwai Kibaki launches the voter registration exercise.

From here on, it will be upon each one of us, as citizens, to ensure we register to vote. It is a civic, patriotic duty of a magnitude none of us can take for granted. This registration will take us to a historic election next year. So much is at stake in this election.

 The March 2013 election will determine whether we rebrand, reinvent and renovate our nation or we continue with business as usual. At worst, and God forbid, that election will also determine whether we sink back to the same shame of the 2007-2008 chaos that put us, shamefully, at the mercy of neighbours and friends. Kenya cannot take chances again.

One thing looks certain to me. One more false step, one backsliding 2007 style and all our neighbours will overtake us, and all our friends and supporters will give up on us. The 2013 election must pass off peacefully.

There is no way to ensure that other than by all of us registering to vote and making a vow that only the vote, and not the force of crude weapons, the cruel tongue of politicians and vote manipulation will count.

This is my appeal to my people, the citizens of Kenya. It is my pledge to my beloved country. Fellow Kenyans, let us go out and register to vote. Let us ensure our friends and neighbours do too. We owe it to ourselves and to the country our parents and grand parents bequeathed us.  

Rt. Hon. (Dr.) Raila A. Odinga, EGH, MP 
PRIME MINISTER
REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Contributing Towards Resource Mobilisation: Appeal to Donate to ODM

As a way of raising funds to boost our campaigns as a political party, and in accordance with the relevant political parties act, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) appeals to all party members, supporters, friends, well wishers and the general public to kindly donate funds to the party to help meet the costs towards the campaign activities for the March 4, 2013 General Election.
 

You may contribute directly through M-Pesa, Airtel Money or VISA Card, please visit our website www.odm.co.ke and click on the DONATE button to make your contribution.

The ODM appreciates contributions of any value made by you towards the course of building a strong campaign that will overwhelmingly win elections and make Kenya a better country for all of us. 

The ODM, in accordance to law, shall publish audited and certified income and expenditure reports as well as the assets and liabilities at the end of every financial year.

Thank you for being part of the winning team.

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Notice of ODM's National Delegates Convention Published

The long awaited Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) National Delegates Convention (NDC) has been confirmed to take place on 7th December 2012. 

The event which will see over five thousand delegates from all corners of the country converge in Nairobi during which time the delegates are expected nominate the party’s presidential flag bearer and his/her running mate.

After the nomination by the party’s top decision making organ, the Party Leader will give the acceptance speech which will be the climax of the event.

OFFICIAL NOTICE OF THE NATIONAL DELEGATES CONVENTION 

OF THE ORANGE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT

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