National Super Alliance (NASA) presidential candidate Raila Odinga has clarified the coalition’s position on mass protests on polling day.
Speaking to the BBC, Raila pointed out that NASA had not given any supporter a go-ahead to disrupt the repeat presidential poll that is scheduled to take part on (October 26) Thursday.
"We have not told people to demonstrate on the polling day. We have not said that at all. We have told people to stay away," said Raila.
Last week he was reported calling for mass protests on the Election Day.
Protests will go on, on the 26th (there) will be the biggest demonstrations in the whole country,” AFP quoted him as saying.
The Opposition chief told BBC there were two camps in the country, those who want to participate in a sham process and those who want to boycott the election.
"There are two forces here; those who want to go on with sham elections irrespective of consequences and those who are saying 'no, it’s is not right to do it,” he told the broadcaster.
The former Prime Minister also claimed that Jubilee Party women had been intimidating voters in the country.
"You find even Jubilee women politicians in military jungle fatigues basically intimidating the electorate in this country,” Raila alleged.
At the beginning of October, 4,000 Jubilee women thronged State House Nairobi dressed in bright red shirts and red berets for a meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The women also attended a rally in Kirinyaga County drumming support for President Uhuru dressed in the same attire.
“We are Uhuru’s army. And we will defend him,” declared Governor Anne Waiguru.
