IEBC disqualifies Rarieda MP candidate Augustine Adhola

BREAKING NEWS

Meanwhile, the commission has summoned 24 politicians fighting for various seats for violence and breach of itd code of conduct.
The politicians have been asked to appear before the IEBC Electoral Code of Conduct Enforcement Committee on July 6.
Those summoned are Migori Governor Okoth Obado and his rival running as independent Ochilo Ayacko

The electoral commission has disqualified Rarieda independent parliamentary candidate Augustine Netto Adhola from the August 8 race.
Mr Netto now becomes the first casualty in the long list of politicians who have breached the electoral code of conduct, receiving the last and final form of punishment from the IEBC: being barred from the race altogether.
SH250,000 FINE
Mr Netto had on June 22 been ordered, within 48 hours, to pay Sh250,00 fine to the commission and remove all posters and campaign materials bearing ODM colours and images of the ODM leader Raila Odinga, failure to which the IEBC warned that he will be disqualified.
“The Electoral Code of Conduct Enforcement Committee notes that the said Netto Adhola failed, neglected and ignored to obey any of the Orders or at all,” IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati said in a statement.
Though Mr Netto had filed an appeal at the High Court to stay the execution of the punishment, Mr Chebukati said, he had lost the case on June 30 with the court affirming the decision of the electoral agency.
“In the premises, the commission has enforced the decision of the committee of June 22, 2017 and hereby directs that Augustine Netto Adhola is disqualified from contesting in the upcoming General elections 2017,” Mr Chebukati, the chair of the committee whose members are the IEBC commissioners, said in the statement.
SH1 MILLION
Mr Netto’s case filed by ODM Rarieda parliamentary aspirant Erick Onyango was one of the seven cases filed with the committee.

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NCIC GIVES POST ELECTION VIOLENCE FEAR

                
The commission has in the past named 19 counties as hotspots for violence during the election.
They also identified hate speech on vernacular radio stations and social media.

The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has echoed sentiments by European Union election observers of possible violence and asked electoral body to discharge its mandate effectively.
The EU Election Observation Mission to Kenya on Monday raised the red flag over possible elections violence.
“There is a serious risk of violence because politicians are beating the drums of war but we can stop this if all of discharge our responsibilities as required under the law,” Ms Irene Wanyoike, the NCIC vice chair said at a press conference on Tuesday.
MISLED
She was accompanied by commissioners Roba Sharamo and Adan Abdi Mohammed. The statement was signed by Chairman Francis ole Kaparo, who did not attend the briefing.
She however clarified that raising the red flag does not confirm that there will be violence, saying there is hope for peace if Kenyans refuse to be misled by politicians.
Among the things the commission has flagged out include the widening ethnic and political polarisation, increased use of inflammatory statements largely characterised by inter and intra-ethnic profiling by the political class and their supporters.
This, the commission noted, has resulted into political hooliganism and violence in some areas.
INSENSITIVE
They also identified hate speech on vernacular radio stations and social media and what it describes as “notable insensitive and sensational reporting by a section of the media.

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