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Saturday, November 5, 2022 –Chief Justice Martha Koome now claims Raila Odinga and Martha Karua brought photo-shopped evidence to the Supreme Court in their effort to overturn William Ruto’s win.
Addressing this matter on a live Tv interview held on Friday November 4 evening, CJ Koome stated that her court had to use an unproven hypothesis, another herring and hearsay since some of the evidence brought into the court was pure work of photoshop meant to mislead the judges and the country at large.
“The court went ahead to look at the original Form 34As to compare with those forms which were alleged to have been interfered with, and the court found that those forms were actually photoshopped,” she recounted.
And speaking on the recounting of the ballot boxes as had been asked by both Odinga and Karua in the petition, the CJ noted that there was confirmed that nothing like interference took place on those forms.
“The court went ahead to ask for the ballot boxes from all the polling stations where those allegations emanated from, where there was said to be interference, and Kenyans watched when scrutiny was done of those original forms in the boxes comparing them with original forms that were brought by IEBC.
“That exercise took no less than 36 hours, and that’s why perhaps the court said we did all this but it turned out to be a wild goose chase,” she added.
Koome also defended her use of hard-hitting controversial phrases in the ruling which saw Ruto’s win validated and the petition thrown out in totality.
“If you read the judgement and followed the reasoning, there is a reasoning for each of those conclusions. Those are English terms, perhaps they angered some people, but they were not meant to offend anybody,” she explained.
Koome, however, refused to dig deeper into the court’s findings saying the matter had already been taken to the East African Court of Justice EACJ for further interpretation.