Raila Odinga, the leader of Azimio, has stated that he believes the Supreme Court ruling was inspired by the devil rather than God.
Speaking in Machakos on Friday, September 16, during the Azimio elected leaders retreat, Raila, the Supreme Court judges, were full of attitude, thuggery, corruption and cynicism.
He continued with his scathing attack on Chief Justice Martha Koome, accusing her of using demeaning language in the ruling that upheld William Ruto’s win.
“We have noticed the attitude, the thuggery, the corruption… the words Supreme Court used against us have never been used even in the dark days of single-party rule and state capture of the Judiciary,” Raila said.
“The Chief Justice described our case presented by the country’s finest legal minds as no more than hot air, a wild goose chase, incredible and hearsay evidence.”
According to Raila, Chief Justice Martha Koome had already defended the decision prior to the final release of the detailed ruling.
“The Chief Justice has gone out to a funeral in her village and defended the judgment even before she gives out the detailed ruling, Supreme court is now in politics and she said that the ruling was inspired by God, I believe it was inspired by the devil,” Raila said.
Raila said it was evidence that the courts sold it soul.
“Actions of Koome demeans the dignity of the Chief Justice office. She has destroyed what her predecessors achieved,” he said.
Raila claimed that rigging in the general election on August 9 extended beyond the presidential level.
He claimed that the elections for lower-level Azimio candidates were rigged in favor of UDA candidates.
“At the presidential level, it is not possible to tell whether we had elections at all. But even at the lower level of polls, I believe that a number of our people were rigged out to pave way for a UDA majority and during election petition, this should have been proved to be the case,” Raila said.
Raila was accompanied by his running mate Martha Karua and other Azimio leaders.
This was the coalition’s first meeting since William Ruto was sworn in as the country’s fifth President.
