The Jubilee Party will hire 290 lawyers to follow through the results transmission process during the repeat presidential elections.
According to Jubilee Party Executive Director Winnie Guchu, the lawyers will report to President Uhuru Kenyatta’s chief agent at the constituencies.
The chief agent will be either a Jubilee Party Member of Parliament (MP) who is either elected or one who lost during the August election.
The agent will be in charge of an information technology expert and an elections expert who will work with the lawyers in ensuring that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) transmission of results is above board.
“We are putting our systems right to ensure that the mistakes the Supreme Court said happened do not recur, and having lawyers at the constituencies will help us arrest the problem before it occurs,” Ms Guchu stated.
[caption caption="Jubilee Party Executive Director Winnie Guchu"]
[/caption]
“We want to have our agents to know that they have the power to question and query: That the process depends on them not letting any irregularity or illegality happen as they watch,” she added.
Jubilee has set up a checklist in every polling station for the agents to tick in as the statutory results declaration Form 34A is being filled by the presiding officer.
The ruling party has also asked all its agents to ensure they get a legible carbon copy of the form before it leaves the polling station.
“We are teaching our agents to know what a Form 34A looks like, what it should have, where it should be stamped, what security features should be there and who should sign it," Ms Guchu stated.
Ms Guchu further highlighted that by the end of Monday, 1,160 educators will have been trained at the Multimedia University.
The 1,160 will then tutor 3,000 officials who will in turn train the party’s 40,883 agents for each of the polling stations.
[caption caption="File image of a form 34A used in August elections"]
[/caption]
