The September Issue- 2022 Kenyan general elections

THE

SEPTEMBER ISSUE

AS I SEE IT

2022 Elections

Director @_bucci_photography Editor @bigpatoarts

bucci photography Monday, 8th August 2022 at 5 p.m I get the call I had been waiting for. “Get ready, you’ll cover the elections starting tomorrow. Please be in my office by 5 a.m.”

5 minutes later and I was still pinching myself to confirm that I wasn’t dreaming. Long story short, I managed to cover the whole process and it was an eye opening experience.

Getting to see Kenyans exercising their civic duty and coming out to vote, aah! You just had to be there. I promise you, touring various places around the capital Nairobi and seeing how much voting meant to the people would make you proud of your country and fellow country men.

In this issue I try to give you a glimpse of the whole process. I hope this issue ignites the desire in you to always yearn to exercise your democratic right, irregardless of whichever part of the world you are reading this from.

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7 1-2 Voters brave the early chilly weather to exercise their democratic right and cast their vote at the Kenya Technical Trainers College polling station in Gigiri.

3-4 Nairobi gubernatorial aspirant Polycarp Igathe gets his finger marked after casting his vote at the Kenya Technical Trainers College polling station in Gigiri.

5 A voter in Kangemi casts his vote at the Kangemi social hall.

6 A voter casting her vote at the Farasi lane Primary school polling centre in Wstlands, Nairobi.

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7-8 An NYS officer reassures a voter of getting his chance to vote. The voter was complaining of having spent a lot of hours lining up waiting to vote.

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12 9-10 IEBC officials wait patiently in line to present their ballot boxes from the various polling centres in Starehe constituency at the Jamuhuri High school tallying centre.

11-12 Voters line up at the Kangemi Social hall polling centre, braving the scorching sun waiting for their turn to vote.

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13 A party agent takes a nap at the Jamuhuri High School tallying centre in Starehe constituency as he waited for the returning officer to finish tallying the results.

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14-15 IEBC clerks carry ballot boxes into the Kenya Technical Trainers College tallying centre in Gigiri in readiness for the tallying process.

16 An IEBC official unloads a ballot box from a bus at the Kenya Technical Trainers College tallying centre in Gigiri.

17 a woman braves the cold weather to prepare and sell tea for party agents, IEBC officials and media personnel at Jamuhuri High School.

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18 A staff at Jamuhuri High school removes a list of voter names that had been stuck on the wall to guide voters on the specific rooms they would go to to cast their vote. The names had been arranged in alphabetical order.

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Azimio la Umoja flagbearer Raila Odinga during a church service at AIC Kibera where he condemned the IEBC for the manner in which they conducted the elections.

20-21 Azimio la Umoja supporters dance aong Harambee Avenue in anticipation for their presidential candidate Raila Odinga being announced as the 5th president of Kenya.

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22-23 Staff at Aquinas High school loading chairs onto a cart, transporting them to the classrooms in readiness for school re-opening. Classes in various schools around the country had been used as polling stations.

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28 24 Staff at Aquinas High school carrying boxes full of waste material that includes election posters and voter registers that were used before and during the election period.

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25-29 IEBC staff and Human Rights activists hold peaceful demonstrations along University way and Kenyatta Avenue headed to AIC Milimani for a requiem mass of a slain IEBC officer. They called for beefing up of security of IEBC staff and also for peaceful coexistence between the election officials and Kenyans..

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35 30-34 UDA supporters celebrate in Dandora after receiving the news of the Supreme Court declaring William Ruto’s election as the 5th president of thereby upholding his election.

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35 UDA supporters celebrate in the Nairobi CBD after the Supreme court led by Chief Justice Martha Koome upheld William Ruto’s election as the 5th president of Kenya.

36 Journalists setting up at Kasarani stadium as they wait for a press briefing.

37 a police officer holds a baby during a memorial service. She offered to hold the baby to allow the mother some time to rest.

Front and Back Page IEBC clerks carry ballot boxes into the Kenya Technical Trainers College tallying centre in Gigiri in readiness for the tallying process.

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