Saitabao Ole Kanchory, Raila Odinga's chief agent detailed how some candidates vying under Azimio la Umoja Coalition reportedly sabotaged and bungled the agents' selection process.
Speaking on Spice FM radio on Thursday, August 25, Kanchory revealed that some leaders rejected the list of agents top Azimio leaders presented to guard Raila's votes in various polling stations.
According to the Azimio agent, the candidates revised the list a day before the Tuesday, August 9 polls, thus altering the entire process.
As a result, some polling stations lacked agents, and others reported late after receiving their appointment letters hours before election day.
Owing to the confusion and sabotage, the central command centre, which Kanchory led, did not have enough time to train some of the 62,000 agents Azimio deployed.
Other than failing to identify the new agents posted by the candidates, remittance of their salaries was delayed hence creating more confusion.
"Because of the nature of the coalition that we are under, we had so many interests in the selection of agents. At the last minute, we had different parties bringing in different lists of agents. Many candidates made it up about themselves forgetting that we were running a presidential centre," Kanchori stated.
"We tried to micromanage a very grand exercise from our headquarters here in Nairobi and it ended up being a very serious logistical nightmare in terms of appointment of agents, deployment, supervision and payment. The consequence of that is that we ended up not having agents in some places, and even some got there a little bit late. We could appoint agents only for candidates to reject them," he added.
Kanchory maintained that despite the challenges, he played his supervision role ensuring that Raila's votes were accounted for in different parts of the country.
Raila's chief agent explained that he represented the former Prime Minister in all meetings and forums at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
The process at the National tallying Centre at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi, however, was disrupted by several incidents including the chaos that ensued after four commissioners differed with the IEBC chair, Wafula Chebukati.
He accused the Kenya Kwanza faction of infiltrating the IEBC servers and manipulating the results in favour of William Ruto, the President-elect.
"We have presented compelling evidence in our petition to show that there was a scheme to manipulate the elections. We have shown, before the Supreme Court, that UDA essentially had a black server. In technology terms, that is a clone of the IEBC server," he reiterated.
On Wednesday, August 24, Raila exuded confidence that the Supreme Court will declare him the winner of the presidential election.
