President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee party has indicated that it will use foolproof ballot papers during the nominations slated for later this month.
This will be in a bid to curb rigging and assure aspirants that the process would be fair and credible.
Speaking to a local daily, the party's secretary-general Raphael Tuju stated that the nomination process would be water tight and further assured aspirants that the party had printed and designed their ballot papers outside the country, hence, they cannot be manipulated by anyone.
“Our handling and delivery of the ballot papers will mirror what the electoral commission does. We will deliver them all to the polling station by end of April 20, open them in the presence of all candidates’ agents and allow each and everyone to take pictures of the whole process,
“We had asked each one of them to check with us that all their details, their pictures, and names are correct on the ballot paper so that we do not have problems on nomination day,” he said. The party will meet with aspirants at the county level after Easter holidays and the same week of the nominations to “assure them of the integrity of the process” he stated.
To assure transparency in all constituencies, he stated that the party would reshuffle officials in charge of the nominations in constituencies where aspirants fear there would be favouritism.
“If they are local people and have specific candidates, we can reshuffle them so that there is less contamination of the process by people with vested interests,” he emphasised.
He further indicated that the party was ready to facilitate consensus in places where candidates are willing to reach a compromise.
