Raila announces Azimio to hold weekly prayers outside IEBC

Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party Leader Raila Odinga has announced that the opposition faction will begin weekly prayer rallies outside the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) offices located at Anniversary Towers along University Way.

In what could mark the return on the so-called teargas Thursdays that preceeded the March 2018 handshake, the Azimio Party leader said the coalition will stage national prayers outside IEBC offices as a continuation of opposition rallies.

He said the prayers will seek to give Kenya an electoral commission that “will defend the rights of the people”.

Raila announced on Wednesday that the first round of prayers will take place next week after the planned rallies in Kisii and Kisumu on Friday and Saturday respectively.

“After we visit Kisii on Friday and Kisumu on Saturday, we will also be doing a prayer for the IEBC that we get an IEBC which will defend the rights of our people,” said Mr Odinga.

“We must defend electoral justice in our country and this is what we have told our MPs to do and will continue to urge Kenyans to wake up and defend their rights,” Odinga said while addressing the media in Nairobi.

“This will not go away and this is a right which nobody can take away from us,” Odinga said.

He said that they had shown beyond reasonable doubt that the August 9, 2022 elections were rigged in favour of President William Ruto, adding that they will not stop their engagements with the public until Kenyans get justice.

“It doesn’t matter how many times Mr Ruto shouts or prays, the prayer is not going to help him get away with theft of elections,” Odinga added.