NASA Presidential candidate Raila Odinga has locked horns with Kenya’s telecommunication giant, Safaricom.
This follows a litany of accusations he leveled on the firm for allegedly colluding with the IEBC in the bungled August 8 polls with a motive to rig.
And on Wednesday, he heightened his attack on Safaricom threatening to institute a boycott on all its products and services.
“Big corporations are part and parcel of killing democracy in Kenya. We have the power and if they want to stifle our democracy, we can retaliate,” he said in a presser at his Capitol Hill office in Nairobi.
He added: “We are considering beginning a period of economic boycott of products and corporations that are working against the interest of Kenyans.
“We can react by telling our people not to buy the services of this and that corporation. That time is coming but it has not come yet. There is notice.”
He said Kenya cannot be a harbor for “forces” mooting to stifle it democratic growth.
However, in a rejoinder, Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore dismissed Raila’s claims that his firm colluded with IEBC to rig the polls.
Collymore explained that it transmitted election results from KIEMS kits to the national tallying centres accordingly as a contract they entered with IEBC stipulated.
“The transmission of the results from the servers to the national tallying centre at the Bomas of Kenya was solely IEBC’s mandate,” said Collymore as told by Daily Nation.
Earlier in the day, through his campaign strategist Salim Lone, the NASA boss accused President Uhuru Kenyatta and Jubilee brigade of plotting to take power forever.
In a statement to the press, Lone said Jubilee’s introduction of amendments to electoral law gives is a plot to retain power “forever”
“Jubilee plans to prevent Supreme Court from annulling elections are designed to rally his base and assure them power will always stay with them. Not just till 2022, but forever,” he said.
Jubilee on Thursday started debating on the new amendments that will raise the bar for Supreme Court to nullify an election.
By Pharis Kinyua. He’s an online Journalist and an author for Jamhuri News