It cannot have been the intention of Parliament to lower the bar on the conduct of elections when the Constitution has clearly annunciated the principles that must govern elections including simplicity, accuracy, verifiability, security, accountability, and transparency. It must follow that the IEBC and all its officials are under a constitutional injunct to uphold and demonstrate these principles in the counting, tabulation, collation and announcing of election results. It cannot be right or permissible for courts to diminish, readily excuse or trivialize the failure on the part of the IEBC to live up to the high but eminently attainable standards set by the Constitution itself. A drip-drop diminution and leaking of integrity, accuracy and dependability of the electoral process unchecked and uncondemned is what leads to a flood and avalanche that imperils the very foundations of our democracy. - Justice Patrick Kiage on Waititu Vs Kidero and others.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:51:19 +0000
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