Sunday, April 21, 2013

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Chronological list of reporting in the Star Newspaper on the Presidential petitions in Kenya after the General Elections 2013


Supreme Court Ruling Shameful

... Court dismissed former Prime Minister Raila Odinga's and Africog’s petitions on March 30, 2013, more than half of the country went ... that’s the equivalent of exactly what happened Raila’s petition. The constitution itself provides that courts cannot sacrifice ...
BY SAM OMWENGA - Saturday, April 20, 2013 - 00:00

Supreme Court releases judgement on election petitions

... which Uhuru Kenyatta was declared president. The petition challenging IEBC’s declaration of Uhuru as the winner of the March ... Cord coalition and the African Centre for Open Governance (Africog) , a civil society group. Speaking at the Supreme Court, ...
BY LYDIA MATATA - Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 00:00

Gladwell, Kiai launch website on poll petition

... A website containing all evidence used in Supreme Court petition was launched yesterday. Gladwell Otieno and Zahid Rajan from ... in public all the evidence around the recent elections. Africog said it would upload a 900-page document detailing evidence on the ...
BY HELLEN MWANGI - Saturday, April 13, 2013 - 00:00

Kethi Kilonzo gets candid on all matters law

... and was the talk of town during the presidential election petition hearing by the Supreme Court. Last week she appeared on the acclaimed ... You represented the African Center For Open Governance (Africog) one of the petitioners against the results of the recently ended ...
BY SHARON MACHARIA - Monday, April 8, 2013 - 00:00

Kenya Needs Judicial Activism To Realize Constitution Goals

... concluded hearing of a consolidated presidential election petition at the Supreme Court of Kenya, counsel for the respondents argued ... Program Advisor at the Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG) ...
BY JAMES GONDI - Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 00:00

Bungoma Cord MPs in pledge to back Uhuru

... election. The Saturday landmark ruling followed a petition by Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Africog, a local Non Governmental Organisation. Waluke said following Cord's ...
BY SIMBI KUSIMBA - Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 00:00

LAWYERS APPLAUD RULING CALL FOR PEACE

Lawyers representing both sides in the presidential petition have applauded the ruling and called on Kenyans to accept the verdict ... Ahmed Nassir and Kethi Kilonzo who represented the IEBC and Africog respectively say the verdict is an indication that the constitution is ...
Joan Wairimu - Sunday, March 31, 2013 - 07:00

K24 blames hacker for tweet on Uhuru election petition win

... station associated with Uhuru, who was a respondent in the petition challenging his election posted on their twitter handle at 1.07pm that ... the Executive Director of Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG) Gladwell Otieno jointly with Zahid Rajan. The twitter posting by ...
BY WALTER MENYA - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 00:00

Presidential Petition In Modern-Day Kenya

... sets. This time to courtroom proceedings over the election petition that was streamed live. The Supreme Court heard and determined ... instance, which was the first day of the pre-trial hearing, AFRICOG filed a 900-page reply affidavit. This affidavit was received by ...
BY DAISY MARITIM - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 00:00

Report proves results were accurate - IEBC

... Lawyers representing respondents in the election petition challenging the outcome of the March 4 presidential elections  have ... on the election petition filed by the Cord Coalition and Africog challenging the outcome of the election in which Uhuru Kenyatta was ...
BY LYDIA MATATA - Friday, March 29, 2013 - 00:00

''Scrutiny proves our case" - Oraro and Kilonzo

... supports their case. Kethi Kilonzo, the lead counsel for Africog said that the two reports, prepared after the Supreme Court ordered a ... stations, confirms the allegations they have made in the petition in regard to differences in form 34 and form 36. Ms Kilonzo said the ...
BY DICKENS OLEWE - Friday, March 29, 2013 - 00:00

Uhuru, Ruto lawyers say Cord poll petition has no basis

... as the third and fourth respondents in the ongoing election petition at the Supreme Court had stated that the Cord petitionchallenging the ... Both lawyers said that the second and third petitioners, Africog and Cord respectively, were tasked with proving the irregularities they ...
BY STAR REPORTER - Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 00:00

Supreme Court throws out Africog's petition

... dismissed the oral application by Kethi Kilonzo representing AFRICOG in a case challenging the declaration of Uhuru Kenyatta as ...
BY STAR REPORTER - Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 00:00

Poll results were 'massaged' - Africog

... results saying the tallying process was questionable. Africog filed the petition challenging the validity of the election outcome in which Uhuru ...
BY STAR REPORTER - Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 00:00

RAILA LOSES BID FOR NEW EVIDENCE

... response. “The affidavits change the character of the petition leading to a new petition. If we allowed the affidavits to remain on ... also rejected a request by the Africa Centre for Governance (AfriCog) to have the IEBC produce electronic equipment that it used to ...
BY NZAU MUSAU AND JILLO KADIDA - Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 00:00

 

IEBC asks court to rule on rejected votes

... Kamau Karori who is representing the IEBC in the poll petition by the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (Cord) challenging Uhuru ... Councils representing African Centre for Open Governance (Africog) and Cord however argued against the petition stating that as per the ...
BY STAR REPORTER - Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 00:00

Africog's application dismissed by Supreme Court

... rejected an application by lawyer Kethi Kilonzo acting for Africog  that sought to have the court compel the IEBC to produce the marked ... to produce application should have been filed with the petition. Following this ruling, the formal proceedings of the ...
BY EUGENE OKUMU - Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 00:00

PRESIDENTIAL VOTES TO BE TALLIED AGAIN

... is the external hard-drive, which has been annexed to the petition by IEBC. The court also ordered a re-tally of results from 22 ... In the other two petitions, by civil society organization Africog and by Jubilee supporters, the petitioners and respondents will each ...
BY SAM KIPLAGAT - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 00:00

KATIBA INSTITUTE WANTS ENJOINED AS FRIEND OF COURT

... Institute will be included as a friend of the court in the petition filed by CORD and AFRICOG.  Yash Pal Ghai   for Katiba Institute argues all petitioners ...
Macharia Wamugo, Cornelius Mwau - Monday, March 25, 2013 - 18:00

... and the Law Society of Kenya to be enjoined in the Cord petition, challenging the election of Uhuru Kenyatta,  as Amicus Curiae , ... the Supreme Court chambers, the judges heard from Cord and Africog, who are petitioners in the case, raise their objections to allowing ...
BY EUGENE OKUMU - Monday, March 25, 2013 - 00:00

PARTICULARS ...AFRICOG - Saturday, March 23, 2013 - 00:00
... by Raila Odinga and African Centre for Open Governance (Africog) in a newspaper with the largest circulation. So far, three petitions ... published on Saturday informing the public of the earlier petition. Soon after the publication, respondents in the case, who include ...
BY SAM KIPLAGAT - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 00:00

... The African Centre for Open Governance (AFRICOG) v Ahmed Issack Hassan & Another High Court of Kenya at ... Constitutional and Human Rights Division Petition No. 152 of 2013 I. Lenaola, D.S. Majanja, W.Korir JJ. ...
BY EMMA KINYA MWOBOBIA - Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 00:00

... assembled to represent Prime Minister Raila Odinga in his petition challenging the election of Jubilee coalition’s Uhuru Kenyatta as ... Otieno told the Star on phone. In the suit last Friday, Africog had sought orders to stop the tallying process that was then going on ...
BY NZAU MUSAU - Monday, March 11, 2013 - 00:00

... elections. The Africa Centre for Open Governance (Africog) said that they have “uncontroverted evidence” of inconsistencies ... which has not been explained to the public. In the petition, the NGO argues that the failure by the IEBC to tally the presidential ...
BY SAM KIPLAGAT AND JILLO KADIDA - Saturday, March 9, 2013 - 00:00



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