KPTJ Statements & Letters

Press Statement on Civil Society Supreme Court Petition

Members of Kenya’s civil society filed a case in the Supreme Court today, challenging the legitimacy of the March 4th 2013 General Election.

“Our case is not about who’s won, but how the public has lost – we lost the promise of a transparent, accurate and effective process,” said Gladwell Otieno, Executive Director of Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG) who filed the case. Otieno spearheads the Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice (KPTJ) coalition, which includes members and individuals from Kenya’s civil society.

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Civil Society Election Petition

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF GLADWELL WATHONI OTIENO AND ZAHID RAJAN in the Republic of Kenya whose address of service for the purposes of this suit is care of Kilonzo & Company Advocates, Kay Group Center, Mucai Drive, Ngong Road, of P.O. Box 59839 Nairobi Showeth as follows.

Open Letter to IEBC - Accountability for and Transparency of Results Verification and Premature Certification and Announcement of Alleged Official Results Without Primary Documentation

Under the law, when polling stations close, ballots are counted, verified by presiding officers and political party agents and the results then posted publicly on the door of the polling stream, thereafter transmitted electronically for the announcement of provisional results by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) at the national elections tallying centre in Nairobi. Subsequently, these results are verified and made official based on the receipt of hard documentation from the constituency returning officers and its verification by the IEBC and political party agents

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Open Letter to IEBC on Issues of Concern Related to the March 4th Election

Dear Sir,
The forthcoming elections will be a key milestone in the implementation of the new constitution, which was voted in by a majority of the Kenyan population. All institutions concerned have a constitutional duty to ensure the transparency and accountability of the electoral process. At the same time, these are the most complex and logistically challenging elections in our history.

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Response to the Recent Threats Against the Chief Justice of Kenya

We, members of Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice (KPTJ) strongly condemn recent acts of intimidation and harassment against the person and office of the Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya. We consider the harassment of the Chief Justice while departing the country on official duty by an immigration official as a completely unacceptable and ominous breach of the principle of the separation of powers and of the respect due to the person and the office of the Chief Justice, head of an independent arm of government.

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Critical Concerns over the Recent Nomination Exercise: Irregularities and Failure of Institutions to Exercise their Respective Mandates to Govern Nomination and the Electoral Process

We, the members of Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice (KPTJ), having observed and monitored the recent nomination exercise by political parties ahead of the March 4th general elections, are concerned by the extent of malpractice and lack of enforcement of election related laws by the institutions charged with enforcing political party discipline and managing the conduct of elections, i.e.

Submission to the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation Team

In the following we, the members of Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice (KPTJ), and colleagues in civil society, highlight issues which we believe should be of concern to the members of the African Union Panel of Eminent African Persons and indeed to Kenyans as we enter the decisive stretch before the elections of March 4 2013.

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Civil Society Says NO! to Further Extension of TJRC Mandate

Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice (KPTJ) together with the Kenya Transitional Justice Network wish to express our serious concern with the failure of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission to release its report on August 3rd 2012 as mandated by the Law. 

Statement on the killing of Sheikh Aboud Rogo and the subsequent violence

September 6, 2012: We, the Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice (KPTJ), a coalition of citizens and organizations working in human rights, governance and rule of law, have come together to express our concern over the killing of the Muslim cleric, Sheikh Aboud Rogo in Mombasa on Monday August 27, 2012 and the violence that ensued resulting in the burning down of churches, the injuries and loss of lives of members

Civil Society Statement on the Controversy Surrounding the Procurement of Biometric Voter Registration System

JULY 29 2012: Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice (KPTJ), an independent umbrella body of Kenyan civil society organizations and our colleagues in civil society including Transparency International (TI) Kenya, Constitution & Reform Education Consortium (CRE-CO), Muslim Human Rights Forum, Center for Governance and Democracy (CDG), Institute  for Social Accountability (