Why Jaguars election should be nullified Witness

The hearing of a petition challenging the election of Starehe Member of Parliament Charles Kanyi Njagua aka Jaguar kicked off on Monday, November 13 before High Court Judge Fred Ochieng.

The case was filed by the ODM Party candidate, Steve Mbogo, who came second in the election after Jaguar who was vying on a Jubilee Party ticket.

Mr. Mbogo’s chief agent, Dr. Nyangwasi Oduwo, was the first to testify before the court, where he claimed the Starehe Constituency election was marred by numerous electoral malpractices.

Oduwo told the court that he scrutinised various forms 35As received from various agents across the polling station, adding that he found anomalies in 160 forms out of the 253 forms he went through.

He claimed that forms 34A were not signed by the Presiding officer and Deputy Presiding officer.

“Some forms lacked official commission stamp and duplicated Forms 35As,” said Oduwo.

Further he claimed that there was a variance between forms 38B and 35B.

Oduwo said that forms 38B submitted by the 1st respondent indicate that results from Nairobi South Ward within Starehe Constituency showed a total of 24,243 votes were cast yet in form 35B the total votes cast for the same ward in the same constituency was 24,272. He said that this indicated a variance of 29 votes.

In the case businessman Mbogo, who intends to line up seven witnesses, wants the court to nullify the election of Jaguar as Starehe MP.

The hearing of the case is still ongoing.