Okoa Kenya

Okoa Kenya is the only thing trending right now, and sooner or later he would add his voice. It was assumed that since he has aligned himself with ODM and is even rumoured to be eyeing a Nairobi parliamentary seat on an ODM ticket, he would…

Cord botched its own Okoa Kenya referendum. The initiative was doomed by major internal defects, glaring collection loopholes, turf wars between the secretariat and experts — and just plain incompetence. "Truth be told. Okoa Kenya…

How the elimination process was carried out:The IEBC yesterday effectively shut down Cord’s plan to take Kenya to another Referendum. A few months ago, Cord leaders submitted a total of 1.6 million signatures, well more than the 1 million…

Cord’s push to change the Constitution collapsed Tuesday after the electoral commission ruled that the sponsors had failed to get the one million signatures necessary to force a referendum. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries…

Cord Leader Raila Odinga on Monday took the Okoa Kenya campaign to change the Constitution to Machakos ahead of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s visit to the county on Wednesday. Mr Odinga accused the governing Jubilee Alliance of…

PRESIDENT Uhuru Kenyatta has told off Cord Leader Raila Odinga for criticising the government saying this is not a coalition government.  Kenyatta told Raila that he should realise this is not a government of ‘half loaf of bread’ but a…

Cord leader Raila Odinga has welcomed plans by President Uhuru Kenyatta to launch a slum upgrading project in Kisumu. Noting that he initiated an upgrade while serving as the Minister of Roads and Public Works in 2003, Raila said he…

Cord is preparing to launch its referendum Bill next week, before initiating the next round of campaigns around the country. Okoa Kenya secretariat Chairman Paul Mwangi on Sunday said the Constitutional Amendment Draft Bill would be…

Kenyans will go for a referendum despite certain heightened schemes to scuttle it, Cord leader Raila Odinga said on Friday. Mr Odinga said that the referendum was a must for Kenyans as part of a process to improve their…

Last week, some unexpected incidents took place in the Coast region as Cord leaders, led by Raila Odinga, visited to launch their Okoa Kenya referendum initiative. Unlike their previous successful visits to Mombasa and Taita Taveta to…