Transparency of election result transmission is mandatory as per Article 86 of the Constitution.
No Bill or law can purport to override the Katiba @UGMParty@Reforms_Ke
Naona maandamano moja safi ya kusafisha nchi.
MPs have passed that bill, these thugs wametuzoea sana.
Wameona Kasongo atashindwa na over 5 million votes.
Kenyans deserve to see how their votes become election results and not simply be told whom to trust. On 22 October 2026, the National Assembly passed the Elections (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill, 2024. Parliament must now publish the approved text and account for its implications for electoral transparency.
In the published Bill, Clause 22 replaces section 39 without expressly requiring livestreaming of results announced at polling stations, while retaining electronic transmission and online publication of results forms. That is not a ban on livestreaming. But sending results to election officials and allowing citizens to watch their announcement serve different purposes. Parliament must clarify whether this omission survived the amendments MPs approved.
The court history cannot be ignored. On 6 April 2018, in Katiba Institute v Attorney General, the High Court invalidated section 39(1G), which required livestreaming but confined streamed results to public information and excluded them as a basis for declaration. The Court rejected that restriction for undermining electoral transparency and accountability. It did not prohibit livestreaming. The Court of Appeal upheld the invalidation on 6 October 2023 in National Assembly v Katiba Institute. The legislative task is therefore to enact a constitutionally sound obligation and not present an already-invalidated provision as an effective safeguard.
Article 86 requires a transparent, verifiable and accountable electoral system, prompt polling-station announcements, and open, accurate collation. Ahead of 2027, Parliament should expressly secure public access to live results announcements, and the IEBC must explain how citizens will follow and scrutinise the process. Electoral reform should make every vote easier to verify, not leave transparency dependent on institutional discretion. The ballot is secret but the count must be open.
Allans Ademba: Content creators, when you are telling us that the government is building stadiums, also tell us that it's abducting its citizens.
Give us room to make a choice; don't make the choice for us.
#TheLastWordNTV@MichelleNgele_
Mute those influencers and keep it moving. We are on the milk shortage, nurses strike, the airport strike, and the abductions that are coming back. Focus.
One year since 12-year-old Bridgit Njoki Wainaina was shot and killed inside her own home during the 2025 Saba Saba protests, her family is still asking the most basic question in any constitutional democracy. Who pulled the trigger, and who will be held to account?
I stand with Bridgit’s family, friends, classmates and every victim of police brutality whose pain has been normalised and whose cases have been delayed, diluted or ignored. Never again shall Kenyans be killed by trigger-happy officers for expressing their rights on the streets.
The Constitution does not permit stray bullets and unknown officers. It demands truth, individual responsibility and institutional reform. Our duty is to defend the right to life, to peaceful assembly and to equal protection of the law, especially for children who should be safest in their homes.
I call upon the IG, IPOA and the ODPP. Account for every life lost during the protests, publish the status of all investigations involving police killings, and prioritise charges against officers implicated in excessive and lethal force. Justice for Bridgit is justice for every Kenyan who has paid with blood for daring to speak.
To Bridgit’s family, you are not alone. We will continue to memorialise her and insist that reparations for victims carry the same weight as consequences for perpetrators. Kenya must choose, impunity or a future where no parent has to bury a child because an officer treated a protest as war.
NTV has aired an exposé on the recent Ol Kalou by-election, revealing the faces of men alleged to have been part of the group that harassed residents.
Ironically, the same men are said to have been part of UDA's campaign team, whose candidate lost the by-election.
While the DCI has promised to investigate the matter, perhaps this should be its first step.
Villagers in Ol Kalou are waiting to see whether DCI officers will investigate the same men who were dishing out money, sponsoring football tournaments, and overseeing the distribution of gas cylinders, among other items, as part of the government's campaign to persuade residents to vote for the UDA candidate, who went on to lose by a landslide.
Kuwakumbusha tu, remember in 2024, ruto called you all terrorist for challenging his bad expenditure behaviour. He doesn't deserve to lead you all, never forget that