The Chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), Wafula Chebukati, has written to CEO Ezra Chiloba demanding answers for the mistakes that occurred during the August 8 elections.
In an internal memo, the chairman asked Chiloba to respond to twelve issues about the presidential election that was nullified by the Supreme Court.
As the head of the Commission, Chebukati sought to know:
1. Why some printed forms did not have security features that were defined in the contract between the electoral body and Dubai-based firm Messer Al Ghurair.
2. Why Chiloba contradicted with the position adopted by the commission on a memo referenced IEBC/CEO/1/1/09/2017 and why he failed to acknowledge the grave indictment of IEBC by the Supreme Court.
3. The IEBC CEO was also tasked to explain the function of printing and scanning machines that were to be supplied by Messer MFI during the election period.
4. Mr Chebukati asked Chiloba to elaborate on what caused massive failure in satellite phones that cost the country Sh848 Million.
5. Why an account was created using the chairman’s name without his knowledge and approval and had 9,934 transactions. Additionally, the IEBC Chairman asked Chiloba to take action on two officers who were behind the account namely Paul Mugo and Boniface Wamae.
6. Chebukati demanded to know why over 10,366 out of 40,883 polling stations sent text results without the accompanying Forms 34A noting that these polling stations had 4,636,556 voters.
Mr Chiloba was also ordered to:
7. Explain why 595 polling stations failed to send presidential election results.
8.Explain why the Commission decided to use a porous file server system for forms 34B submission, instead of using a secure system, which made it easy for individuals to manage accounts on each other’s behalf which is clearly a security risk.
9. Explain why some of the KIEMS kits were assigned Orange and Airtel service providers in areas that Safaricom had the coverage needed.
10. Respond on why the Commission experienced non-validation of voters after KIEMS identification.
11. Further, explain why 682 polling stations had an equal number of rejected votes in regard to the number of registered voters in those polling stations.
12. Explain why KIEMS GPRS and Geo-fencing features were switched off from August 5, 2017 way before the election day.
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