Former US Secretary of State John Kerry, who led led a team of Carter Centre election observers during the August 8 general election, has expressed his frustrations with Uhuru Kenyatta’s attacks on the Supreme Court.
In his article on New York Times titled ‘One Cheer for Democracy in Kenya’ expressed his shock with Uhuru Kenyatta’s attacks on Supreme court, he said he was surprised because initially the president respected the courts but after his win was annulled he launched a series of attacks on the judiciary.
“Initially, President Kenyatta spoke about respecting the court’s decision, but sadly, in subsequent statements, he attacked the judges as “crooks” and vowed to “fix” the court if re-elected. All Kenyans, especially its political leaders, need to act responsibly and ensure that the new electoral process is peaceful,” Kerry wrote in part.
The former US Secretary of State also absolved election observer missions from rubber-stamping rigged August 8th election, he explained that they noted isolated incidences of irregularities.
“The ruling of the court did not contradict the reports of Carter Center, whose team we lead, or those of other observer missions including European Union and African Union, whose findings were broadly similar. Although our observers had note isolated instances of procedural irregularities in voting and counting, these did not appear to affect the integrity of those processes, which had functioned relatively smoothly,” wrote Kerry.
