Kenya-Daniel Arap Moi wins presidential elections

(4 Jan 1998) T/I 10:55:35


President Daniel arap Moi was declared the winner Sunday (4/1)
in Kenya's presidential elections as late results indicated his
Kenya African National Union (KANU) would win a slim majority in
parliament over the combined opposition.


SHOWS:

NAIROBI, KENYA 4/1

Moi arriving at church;
VS INT. Moi at church;
SOT man's sermon at church (in English): "1998 as a Hebrew
word means to close up to shut up or to stop. You are not only
forming numerical numbers, you are also forming a Hebrew word."
EXT. of County Hall where election commission held press
conference;
INT. press conference;
SOT Samuel Kivuitu, chairman of the electoral commission (in
English): In accordance with section 5 of the Kenyan
Constitution, the Electoral Commission is satisfied that the
presidential candidate Daniel Arap Moi has received the highest
number of votes was elected as member of parliament for central
and has received a mimimum of thirty-five per cent in the entire
votes caste in at least five of the eight provinces of the
Republic of Kenya it is hereby declared that he is elected the
President of the Republic of Kenya";
VS press conference;
Mwai Kibaki, Presidential candidate of Democratic Party (opposition) arriving at railway club in Nairobi where westlands constituency votes were counted;
Kibaki and Charity Ngilu (Social Democratic Party Presidential
Candidate) sitting together;
SOT Kibaki reacting to announcement of Moi's victory (in
English): He will still be a fraudulent President. He will not
be genuine cause he has rigged his way to that position. He will
have no moral authority whatsoever he will not be accepted by
citizens. They are going to rule them by force so he will have
no moral authority whatsoever.";
SOT Ngilu reacting to announcement (in English): We gave Moi
and the Electoral Commission the benefit of doubt and they asked
to go out and vote and we did. But we did not know that Moi and
the Colonel? had rigged elections to this extent. And the
observers the international observers have not helped the
situation have not helped at all.";
vs of workers preparing the Uhuru Park Stadium for tomorrow's
inauguration ceremony.

RUNS: 2.56

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