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Kenya: Polls Probe Team Calls Up Witnesses
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The Nation (Nairobi)
23 April 2008
Posted to the web 22 April 2008
Dave Opiyo
Nairobi
Kenyans have been asked to present names of possible witnesses they want to appear before the team set up to probe last year's General Election, by May 16, 2008.
People may also submit a brief presentation of the facts and evidence they intend to present to the Independent Review Commission once it begins its sittings.
The sittings will be held at Kenyatta International Conference Centre, which hosted the ECK's tallying centre during the December 2007 elections.
In a public notice yesterday, Lady Justice Imani Aboud, the vice-chair of the commission, said the information will be thoroughly analysed, and the team would schedule further meetings with the witnesses, if more information was needed.
"All information shall be treated in strict confidence and shall be used only for the purposes for which the commission was appointed," Lady Justice Aboud said, adding, individuals seeking to testify during the formal hearings of the commission should also indicate their intentions.
Justice Aboud announced that the Kriegler commission was in the process of organising a schedule of its meetings, to include members of the public in various regions in the country.
Last week the commission met wananchi, public officers, political parties, the media, civil society, faith organisations, and private sector groups, among others, in what they described as "introductory consultative meetings."
During the meetings, Justice Johann Kriegler, the committee chairman, appealed to these bodies to give information that will assist in unravelling what went wrong during the hotly disputed poll.
Name and shame
And he threatened to name and shame those frustrating the commission's work.
Presidential results announced by ECK sparked a month of protests in which over 1,200 people were killed and some 350,000 others displaced from their homes.
The committee is expected to assess ECK's efficiency and its capacity to discharge its mandate.
It will also probe the vote counting and tallying for the entire election and investigate the organisation and structure of the 2007 electoral operations, among other key issues.
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The Kriegler committee is expected to submit its final report with its findings and recommendations to the President in three to six months. The report will be made public within 14 days of submission.
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