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President Kenyatta Meets Election Observers

SK 2 years ago 2 min read

At State House in Nairobi on Saturday, President Uhuru Kenyatta received a group of election monitors who gave him a report on their findings about the voting process.

The delegation, led by former president of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma, claimed that all of the observers gave favorable assessments of the election and that it had been fairly transparent.

The team, which also included former presidents of Burundi and Ethiopia, Domitien Ndayizeye and Mulatu Teshome, as well as Seychelles Ambassador Marie-Pierre Lloyd, noted that the election system and institutions complied with international best practices and legal requirements in their memo to President Kenyatta.

The election observers highlighted that they had gained a lot of knowledge from Kenya’s elections and would use it as an example of true democracy, institutional integrity, and obeying the law to build the “Africa we want”

As some of the good practices that should be imitated, they pointed to the use of technology as well as the observance of the Constitution and institutional rules during the voting process.

The observers thanked President Kenyatta and the Kenyan people for their vibrant, inclusive, and peaceful campaigns, and they hoped for a fair election with a peaceful outcome as well as a post-election process that would be a lasting legacy for President Kenyatta.

The President thanked the Election Observer Mission for its dedication and expressed his pride in the peaceful and orderly nature of the campaigns and voting, which saw a decline in ethnic animosity and a focus on issues.

“The only anxiety witnessed has been that of anticipation but not of fear,” President Kenyatta said.

He stated that the successful conclusion of the electoral process, the upkeep of peace and security, and the changeover to the new leadership are his key priorities.

Amb. Raychelle Omamo, cabinet secretary for foreign affairs, and Amb. Macharia Kamau, principal secretary, were in attendance.