Al Ghurair secretly brought, stored presidential ballot papers in greenhouses - Raila

Raila Odinga has claimed presidential ballot papers may have been printed before IEBC asked parties to send agents to check the process.

In an address to the media on Friday, Raila noted the National Super Alliance will not accept a situation where the August polls, which are 10 days away, are rigged.

"We suspect the ballot papers have already been printed. They are under special transit goods that are to be transported from greenhouses which are already in the country," he said.

"The goods will be transported to certain regions which will be cordoned off as no-go zones by military personnel who are to be deployed."

The NASA presidential candidate said the idea of asking parties to send agents is "total hogwash".

"...the ballot papers are already here. We are going to copy this letter to the IEBC. You can see the reason why there was insistence that Al Ghurair must print the papers."

Raila said they will not go to the election until they are sure the process will be free, fair, and credible.

"...we will not go into elections until we get information that the process is democratic. We don' want ghost voters. This is not negotiable at all."

Last Thursday, the Court of Appeal held that Al Ghurair proceeds with the printing of presidential ballot papers.

A five-judge bench reversed a High Court decision that terminated the contract awarded to the Dubai-based firm.

This followed a suit filed by the National Super Alliance.

Al Ghurair has denied the Opposition's claims that its officials met the President at State House before the printing contract was secured.

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The rigging plot thickened earlier when Raila claimed Jubilee Party is planning to cut electricity supply in Mathare and Kibera in a new plot to rig elections.

He claimed the government is also planning to deploy soldiers to install Uhuru Kenyatta as the president if the latter loses the election.

"There are plans to cut power and water in these counties in the pretext of containing cholera," he told journalists on Friday.

He added: "The attempt by Uhuru to involve some members of our military to interfere with the August 8 election is illegal and amounts to a coup."

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