Kenya election: Raila Odinga urges supporters to strike
Kenya's opposition leader has urged people to stay away from work on Monday over the disputed election result.
Raila
Odinga said it would be a "day of mourning for the fallen patriots"
after a rally in Kibera, the largest slum in the capital Nairobi.
The international community has urged calm following the vote, which Mr Odinga alleges was fixed.
The official results gave President Uhuru Kenyatta 54.3%, and Mr Odinga 44.7%.
The
allegation has sparked violent protests, with news agency AFP reporting
at least 16 people killed since Friday. On Saturday, the Kenya National
Commission on Human Rights said 24 people had been shot dead during
protests since election day on 8 August.
It is unclear how much these two figures overlap.
The victims included a nine-year-old girl hit by a stray bullet in Nairobi's Mathere slum.
In a tweet sent after the rally, Mr Odinga said they had died at the
hands of "Jubilee mandated death squads", referring to Mr Kenyata's
party.
A man was also killed in Kisumu county, an opposition
stronghold and the centre of post-election ethnic violence in 2007, when
1,200 people died and 600,000 were displaced.
"This is a failed regime that is resorting to killing people instead
of addressing the real issue. The vote was stolen. There's no secret
about that," Mr Odinga told the 4,000 people who had gathered to hear
him talk on Sunday.
He added: "We had predicted they will steal
the election and that's what happened. We are not done yet. We will not
give up. Wait for the next course of action which I will announce the
day after tomorrow.
"But for now I want to tell you not to go to work tomorrow Monday)."
The
BBC's reporter in Nairobi said his claims were contrary to reports from
both local and international observers that the poll was free and fair.
European Union foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini and former UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan are among those who have urged Mr Odinga
to seek redress through the courts - something the opposition coalition
says is not an option.
The Elections Observation Group (Elog),
which had 8,300 observers, said its projected outcome put Mr Kenyatta on
54%, just short of the official figure of 54.3%.
BBC
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