Mars Group - Election 2007 controversies

Did the Police influence the election results ?

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	Time: 2231, Prof. Julius Meme and other aspirants term the results announced by ECK as a sham citing irregularities
	Time: 1229, Kivuitu says he was escorted under tight security by the police
	Time: 0342, ODM pentagon member William Ruto says ODM agents are unable to sign 16A form in Meru and parts of Central Province and seeks a way forward from the Commission
	Time: 2048, ODM agents in Meru region disclose massive irregularities in results announced by ECK
	Time: 1421, ODM Discloses Massive Rigging - ODM briefing at KICC disclosing massive rigging by ECK officers in 48 constituencies after joint ECK audit of all the 210 constituencies. Ruto discloses that all 48 lacked supporting documents and inflated Kibaki's figure. ECK has not provided any evidence to the contrary.
	Time: 1620, Police sent to the ECK media center to clear the room of all the people present and take Kivuitu to another room to announce the final results.
	Time: 1642, Kipkemoi arap Kirui an ECK official testifies that forms 16A are being altered at the Commission. The forms 16A are altered at the IT section.
	Time: 1739, GSU Seizes control of KICC before the announcement of the winner. Journalists are ejected from the KICC grounds, GSU officers clear the whole place. One media channel is asked to stay behind to transmit the announcement of the winner by the ECK. Absolutely nobody is allowed into the building, as GSU barricade the the whole area.
	Time: 1740, ECK Chairman Samuel Kivuitu declares Mwai Kibaki as the winner of the 2007 general elections. The chairman says the results unnecessarily long to announce the results. Kivuitu says the delay cannot stop the ECK from announcing the results.
	Time: 1750, Justice minister leaves KICC with the ECK Chairman immediately after the announcement of the winner.
	Time: 1754, ECK declares Kibaki the winner of 2007 general elections. Police commissioner Major General Husein Ali leaves shortly after Justice minister Martha Karua. The Commisioner is then seen shortly at the swearing in at State House Nairobi.
	Time: 1824, Kibaki is sworn in at State House Nairobi. Kibaki is presented with a certificate by the chairman of ECK Samuel Kivuitu. The ceremony is conducetd by the Chief Justice Evans Gicheru. The national anthem is left out contrary to the procedure of swearing in ceremony. No heads of State, diplomats and observers attend the occasion.
	Time: 2102, Four ECK Commissioners are owning up over the controversial tallying of the presidential results. The Commissioners admit that there may have been several irregularities in the process but the Commission had no power to correct them. They call for an independent body to do the re-tallying process.
	Time: 2100, EU Observers doubt the credibility of the election results. Chief European Union observer Alexander Graf says there are doubts of the credibility of the tallying process in the presidentail elections, and expressed dissappointment that ECK did not fulfil its responsibilities in ensuring a free and fair process.
	Time: 2100, ECK chairman Samuel Kivuitu says he announced the presidential election results under pressure from the major political protagonists. He says he contemplated resigning but then thought Kenyans would regard him a coward.
	Outgoing Juja MP Kabogo confirms that at about 10 oclock of the 27th December 2007 he got information that ballot papers were being stuffed into the ballot boxes. He raised the issue with the returning officers and to the ECK. Kabogo says Kibaki did not get more than 52,000 votes in Juja Constituency.
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