NASA Seeks Imprisonment of IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba

Lawyers for the National Super Alliance (NASA) will this week move to court to seek the prosecution of top officials of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).

The coalition accuses the officials of messing up the August 8 election, leading to its nullification.

"The coalition’s lawyers are in the process of furnishing the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions with material seeking to show how top IEBC managers messed up with the election which was nullified by the Supreme Court on September 1," said Mr Paul Mwangi, the coalition’s legal team head.

NASA intends to file a case against IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba, his deputy Betty Nyabuto-Sungura, elections director Immaculate Kassait, ICT head James Muhati and head of legal Services Praxedes Tororey.

“We will be going for Chiloba and Muhati for contempt of court because they disobeyed the order by the Supreme Court that they open up the servers for scrutiny.

"We shall be seeking their imprisonment because there is adequate evidence to prove contempt of court," stated Mwangi.

Last week, the five top officials were excluded from the team unveiled by IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati to oversee the October 17 repeat presidential election.

Mr Mwangi further added that they were compiling a list of more than 1,000 election officials, mainly presiding officers and returning officers who deliberately refused or failed to relay accurate results of the presidential election to the national tallying centre.

“We are compiling their names and the list of offences each committed as established by the Supreme Court in its report, information which we will hand over to the DPP.

"We want them to take personal criminal responsibility for their actions,” NASA's legal team head was quoted by the Daily Nation.

NASA warned that should the DPP fail to prosecute the election officials, they would pursue private prosecutions in local courts.

The coalition’s legal team is also working with civil society organisations in France to open charges against French firms Safran and OT-Morpho, which supplied election equipment to the IEBC.

NASA accuses the French firms of colluding with top IEBC officials to bungle the election.

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