Former US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has made a
swipe at the Kenya’s bunged elections, implicating a firm that ‘allegedly aided
US President Donald Trump to ascend to power’.
Speaking to America based NPR Radio’s Fresh Air program,
Mrs Clinton has exposed yet another firm Cambridge Analytica, which she claims
was instrumental in the Brexit vote, to have been very instrumental in the
bungled Kenyan elections.
Clinton said there is an investigation going on in the UK
because of the use of data and the weaponisation of information by the company.
Mr Trump has been on the limelight for what is termed as ‘using
the Russian firm to interfere with the electronic voting system’ in the US
in the 2016 presidential elections. The company, Mrs Clinton argues, has been
massively implicated in the scam.
"They were involved in the Trump campaign after he
got the nomination," Mrs Clinton told the NPR Radio.
She added: “The Kenyan election was also a project
of Cambridge Analytica, the data company owned by the Mercer
family that was instrumental in the Brexit vote.”
Earlier, there were claims that the giant data company –
Cambridge Analytica - was directly involved in the planning and eventual
manning of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s campaigns in the run up to the bungled
elections on the August 8.
Mr Kenyatta’s team, however, dismissed the claims and
argued that his campaigns were planned and executed by the then Raphael Tuju
led Jubilee secretariat.
Commenting on the Historic ruling by the Supreme Court
which annulled the presidential election in which President Uhuru Kenyatta had
been declared the winner; Mrs Clinton said that the US, despite her democratic
maturity, has a lesson to learn from Kenya.
“So what happened in Kenya, which I'm only beginning to
delve into, is that the Supreme Court there said there are so many really
unanswered and problematic questions, we're going to throw the election out and
redo it. We have no such provision in our country. And usually we don't need
it,” she said.
Mrs Clinton’s sentiments come a day even as the Supreme
Court comes under fire for what a local daily claims that several Justices in
the court were bribed to a tune of Sh200 million, notwithstanding the numerous
meetings with opposition lawyers before the ruling.
Mr Kenyatta’s team in the recent past has hurled stones
at the Supreme Court justices for what they term as partisan and biased
ruling, “controlled by select non-governmental organisations”.
Last week, a Jubilee Member of parliament moved to the
Judicial Service Commission, which the Chief Justice David Maraga chairs, to
institute a petition to have the CJ axed. President Uhuru Kenyatta pleaded with
the MP to drop the petition.
