NASA petition is a shell without a bomb, Senator Kipchumba Murkomen has said in response to lawyer James Orengo's remark that they have bombshell evidence.
Before petition hearings began, the NASA lawyer said they will demonstrate at the Supreme Court the magnitude of fraud committed during elections.
Orengo said most of the 54,000 papers filed by IEBC have no security features as stipulated in the Elections Act.
"We have a bombshell ... in my many years of practice I have never seen such magnitude of forgery. A majority of IEBC papers are fake," he said.
[VIDEO] Most IEBC papers are fake, NASA has bombshell on elections fraud - Orengo
But Murkomen at the end of the petition hearing said the evidence that the Opposition submitted to the Court had no substance.
"Eventually NASA's petition is underwhelming. A shell without the bomb as earlier promised by my colleague Senator Orengo," Murkomen said via Twitter on Tuesday.
Murkomen further said NASA are busy arguing that IEBC should have verified results by reopening and scrutinizing Forms 34A yet they said the results should be announced at the constituency level.
"You have made your bed now lie in it. You can't have your cake and eat it. You either have it or eat it," The Elgeyo Marakwet Senator said.
His remarks received mixed reactions from social media users and followers as some attacked him while others supported what he said.
"@kipmurkomen you lost direction the moment you left the lecture room. Go yap in the Senate," @MweuCarole said.
@MaduroGeorge said "The computer generated lawyer is on Twitter while real lawyers are giving their views in supreme Court."
"Lawyers argue their points in court not on twitter bwana Murkomen," @MacgoyeD said.
@FelixOmondiOyoo said "Junior counsel Murkomen is that player who warms up on the touchline for 90 minutes but never gets to play. Maembe."
"The only sense PLO said was that the baby was delivered and is alive..But he forgot to say the baby is with the wrong mother," @momanyijose said.
@Ericochola said "So your work is to blabber and jabber in the social media. I don't think this is the right platform to showcase your legal prowess."
Other users supported Murkomen's sentiments saying they waited for the evidence but they did not see.
"We all were waiting for the bomb in relation to the hacking and hatching of vifarangas via computer. NASA disappointed us on that count," @IgwetaGK said.
@maswalimajibu2 said "I feel Raila has always been misadvised, they could have shown some evidence from their agents, i saw none at all."
"They never delivered us canan how do we expect jerusalem (sic)," @FredrickNgigi3 said.
During their submissions, NASA lawyers said presidential election results declared were not based on evidence as they cited mismatch of results in Forms 34B and the IEBC online portal.
Orengo and Otiende Amollo outlined the "glaring errors" in IEBC forms that led to an allegedly rigged election. Orengo said the forms issued to them and the Supreme Court do not match with their respective constituencies.
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But President Uhuru Kenyatta's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the NASA petition saying they were based on hearsay but no evidence.
"Hold some arguments with a belt and suspender ... it is about the vote. Courts cannot demand voter certainty. The essence of this election is whether the voters voted," Ahmednasir Abdullahi said.
The seven-judge bench will deliver its ruling on the presidential petition on Friday, September 1.
Chief Justice David Maraga did not, however, specify the time the ruling will be delivered.
Read: Raila presidential petition hearing ends, Maraga says ruling on September 1
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