Opposition leader Raila Odinga has reiterated IEBC officials
who bungled the August 8 presidential election will not be allowed to oversee
another poll.
Raila on Sunday while addressing a NASA rally in Nairobi’s
Embakasi East constituency said the opposition will soon roll out a countrywide
campaign to agitate for the ejection of IEBC officials led by CEO Ezra Chioba
from office.
“We insist on a thorough independent and transparent audit
of the election technology ecosystem. We maintain that people who messed up the
last elections cannot be allowed to participate in organising the next
election,” he said at his Capitol Hill office on Monday.
“Those individuals not only messed up and stole our
elections, they also received bribes and we will be naming, exposing and
prosecuting them.”
He said NASA leaders will criss-cross the country in a
campaign to explain to their supporters why the current IEBC commission cannot
be trusted to oversee a free, fair election.
“Why should Kenya trust these institutions? Is it because
the IEBC went to a retreat and buried their hatchet? Is it because Safran gave
itself a clean bill?” Raila posed.
“Is it because IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba answered the Chebukati
memo and gave it to DP William Ruto?”
Raila maintained IEBC commissioner Abdi Guliye, CEO Ezra
Chiloba and nine other officials must exit office before the October 17 repeat
polls.
He claimed the electoral agency and the Jubilee Party are
partners in crime and must be reformed through a consultative process before
conducting any other poll.
