Details emerge how Chebukati kept the NSAC team waiting for four hours
Chebukati kept the NSAC team waiting for four hours at Bomas despite Kinyua’s call according to the submission by the Attorney General to the court.
On Thursday, more information about the behind-the-scenes dispute over what Wafula Chebukati, chair of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), has called a State-orchestrated attempt to “moderate” the presidential election was availed in the court.
Senior Counsel George Oraro defended the National Security Advisory Committee (NSAC) against accusations of trying to skew the results while making recommendations on behalf of Attorney General Kihara Kariuki, claiming that the security body merely aimed to support IEBC in carrying out its mandate.
During oral arguments on the consolidated presidential election case, Oraro informed the Supreme Court that Chebukati had been properly notified of NSAC’s plan to meet with him at the National Tallying Centre.
However, despite being notified by the Head of Public Service Joseph Kinyua, Chebukati kept the NASC team waiting for four hours.
“When the NSAC delegation arrived at Bomas, nobody was at hand to receive them. They waited for four hours,” Oraro told the court presided over by Chief Justice Martha Koome.
The Attorney General’s advocate was responding to an affidavit by Chebukati in which the IEBC Chairperson told the court the NSAC delegations which included Principal Administrative Secretary at the office of President Kennedy Kihara, Solicitor General Kennedy Ogeto, Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai and Lieutenant General Francis Omondi Ogolla (Vice Chief of Defence Forces) asked him to alter results of the election to force a run-off in the event he was unable to declare Raila Odinga the winner.
Chebukati had told the court through an affidavit that the message relayed by NSAC cautioned that if he declared William Ruto as the President-Elect, “the country is going to burn.”
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