{"id":460622,"date":"2011-07-14T08:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T08:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/14\/kenya-waibara-asks-for-dismissal-of-poll-suit\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T08:10:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T08:10:58","slug":"kenya-waibara-asks-for-dismissal-of-poll-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/14\/kenya-waibara-asks-for-dismissal-of-poll-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Waibara Asks for Dismissal of Poll Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"29.3825008381\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/nation180.jpg\" alt=\"The Nation (Nairobi)\" title=\"Visit The Nation (Nairobi)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>13 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 Gatundu North MP Clement Waibara has asked the court to dismiss with costs a petition challenging his 2007 election victory.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Waibara&#8217;s lawyer Evans Ondieki and Mr Ben Mukuria, who represented the Interim Independent Electoral Commission, urged the judge to dismiss the case with costs, saying:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The witnesses who tendered testimony were peddlers of untruths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bernard Chege Mburu, who challenged Mr Waibara&#8217;s election, alleged that the 2007 election in Gatundu North was marred by violence and voter bribery by Mr Waibara and his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that the defunct Electoral Commission of Kenya cleared Mr Waibara to contest the seat knowing that he was not proficient in English and Kiswahili.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Martin Ndung&#8217;u Kahura, one of the witnesses called by Mr Mburu, said he sat for the &#8220;proficiency test for Mr Waibara in 2007&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kahura said that he was a diploma graduate of the Kenya Polytechnic.<\/p>\n<p>But it later emerged he had forged the certificate of another student. &#8220;Mr Kahura was a peddler of untruths,&#8221; said Mr Ondieki.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Mburu&#8217;s lawyer Muthomi Thiankolu urged the court to nullify the results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Witnesses have proved that Mr Waibara won the poll irregularly,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See original article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107140086.html\" title=\"Kenya: Waibara Asks for Dismissal of Poll Suit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Waibara Asks for Dismissal of Poll Suit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 13 July 2011 Nairobi \u2014 Gatundu North MP Clement Waibara has asked the court to dismiss with costs a petition challenging his 2007 election victory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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