National Super Alliance (NASA) Co-principal Musalia Mudavadi and Siaya Senator James Orengo, are being investigated for interfering with the August 8 elections.
Mr Mudavadi and Senator Orengo have been accused of using unlawful means to access the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) servers.
Jubilee Party chief agent Davis Chirchir is also under investigation and he is accused of committing electoral malpractice by aiding the electoral commission to abet election offences.
Investigators from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) under Ndegwa Muhoro and those under the EACC chief executive Halakhe Waqo launched the investigations after the Director of Public Prosecution Keriako Tobiko ordered for the probing.
[caption caption="IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba"]
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Among those being investigated are eleven top IEBC officials, including chief executive Ezra Chiloba who were accused of malpractices and bungling the August 8 presidential election which was nullified by the Supreme Court.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission confirmed that the investigations were at an advanced stage although they were yet to submit the report to DPP Tobiko.
Keriako Tobiko had written to a joint team of investigators from the EACC and the DCI on October 19 requesting the files after the 21-day probe time frame lapsed, but no response has been given.
Senior assistant communications officer in the DPP’s office Beatrice Omari stated: “The Director of Public Prosecutions is awaiting submission of the investigation file to enable him to take appropriate action.”
After the lapse of 21 days, the DPP wrote a follow-up letter to the EACC and copied to the DCI on October 19 requesting a status report on the investigations.
[caption caption="DPP Keriako Tobiko"]
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Tobiko on September 23, after the presidential election was nullified, directed the team comprising of his senior prosecutors providing technical guidance support in the investigations to “expeditiously” probe the matter and submit the file on October 23.
