Presiding Officer and Deputy Arrested With 6 Stuffed Ballot Boxes in Kilgoris

Two Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) officials have been arrested with six stuffed ballot boxes.

The suspects, a Presiding and Deputy Presiding Officer, were apprehended on Wednesday after the ballot boxes were found in one of their houses in Kilgoris.

Confirming the incident, a Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officer indicated that an Administration Police officer had also been arrested regarding the issue.

Earlier on, Kilgoris Returning Officer (RO) had cancelled the results for Enenkeshui polling station after noting the number of votes had exceeded the registered voters in that station.

According to the RO, the station had 285 registered voters but the results submitted indicated that 325 people had voted.

On Tuesday, four clerks were apprehended in separate incidents after they were caught committing grievous election offences.

In Changamwe Constituency, Mombasa County, one clerk was caught handing double Senator and MP seat ballot papers to select voters on the queue.

Elsewhere in Murang'a, two IEBC officers were nabbed trying to change names of polling clerks so that their preferred clerks conduct elections in a Kandara constituency station.

Another official was apprehended in one of the polling stations in Malindi after he was caught issuing double ballot papers.

 

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