CORD leader Raila Odinga has now claimed that the Jubilee Government is secretly using the National Intelligence Service (NIS) to register foreigners as voters ahead of the upcoming General Election.
"We have credible information that the National Intelligence Service (NIS) is once again heavily involved in the on-going voter registration with the aim of influencing results in August in the same way it did in 2007 and 2013," Odinga said
Mr Odinga noted that the spy agency is taking BVR kits across the Kenyan borders and registering Ugandans and Ethiopians.
"NIS interference in the current voter registration involves taking BVR kits across our borders into Uganda and Ethiopia and assisting citizens of the two countries to register in a Kenyan election process. The agency is also assisting citizens of these neighbouring countries to acquire Kenyan identification documents then helping them cross into Kenya and register as voters," he added.
The former Prime Minister further mentioned that NIS was also illegally registering youths under the National Youth Service (NYS) program as voters.
"The NIS is also interfering with the voter registration process by having youth whose data were collected through the dubious National Youth Service exercise over the last few years and registering them as voters, without their knowledge." Odinga's statement read in part.
The CORD chief accused NIS of being responsible for the double registration of voters in the country.
"This NIS-driven process is responsible for the multiple registrations, shared identity cards and many cases of people who are captured as registered when indeed they had never done so," Odinga pointed out.
Odinga added: "It is a disgrace and a betrayal of public trust when an institution that is supposed to safeguard the interests of the nation take the lead in undermining those very interests.
"We challenge the NIS to come clean on this matter and assure the country that it is abandoning its disgraceful involvement in the voter registration. It must do this with the full awareness that there will be no country if it does not abandon course it is currently pursuing. Kenyans are not prepared to have the NIS choose for them their next leader again," Mr Odinga further mentioned.
