A state House operative has called for NASA’s Chief Raila Odinga’s arrest for contempt of Court.
Eric Ngeno, State House Director of Messaging in a statement on Friday said Raila has showed contempt of court by launching an onslaught against the IEBC.
He said Raila was in direct contempt of the court which ordered for fresh polls on September 1.
“The Supreme Court, beyond nullifying the results of the presidential election of 8th August 2017, also ordered the IEBC to conduct a fresh presidential election within 60 days.
For a while now, Raila Odinga has led NASA senior officials in an absurd onslaught on the IEBC,” read the statement.
He added: “Apart from a delusional raft of petulant “irreducible minimums”, Odinga has indicated a strategy based on two bizarre assumptions.
The first is that he must be on the ballot for a valid election to take place.
The second is that there will be a constitutional crisis if no election is held as ordered. Both assumptions are deliriously nonsensical at best.”
Thus, he should be punished because “recent behaviour and utterances by Odinga indicate that not only are NASA uninterested in any election, they are taking active measures to obstruct IEBC from holding the elections.”
“Disobedience of court orders is a crime that strikes at the heart of the authority of judicial institutions and undermines the rule of law.
A party who takes such trouble and invests time, effort and resources to undermine court orders that he painstakingly procured resides in the domain of singular deviants.
This instance of contempt of court is outstanding in its cynicism and nihilistic callousness. It must not go unremarked. It must not go unpunished,” concluded the statement.