Four IEBC commissioners met Azimio in Kilimani apartments after Bomas drama; new evidence reveals
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Four IEBC commissioners met the Azimio coalition in Kilimani apartments after the Bomas drama according to new evidence tabled at the investigating tribunal
Four IEBC commissioners met the Azimio coalition in Kilimani apartments after the Bomas drama according to new evidence tabled at the investigating tribunal.
According to new evidence presented before Justice Aggrey Muchelule’s tribunal, former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) vice chairperson Juliana Cherera and three other commissioners met with several Azimio leaders following the infamous August 15 press conference.
According to the evidence released on Tuesday, December 13, the four, Cherera, Francis Wanderi, Justus Nyangaya, and Irene Masit, were booked into an exclusive apartment in Kilimani following the press conference.
The beleaguered Cherera four were said to have signed on as tenants after refusing to share their personal information with the apartment management.
“At 8:36 pm on August 15, four guests accompanied by their bodyguards and other individuals arrived and checked in,” read the evidence in part, in a report aired by NTV.
According to reports, an Azimio politician paid for the three apartments on August 16.
The apartment management also claimed that the commissioners were greeted by top brass Azimio visitors as soon as they arrived.
Former Jubilee Party Secretary General Rafael Tuju and KANU’s Nick Salat are among those accused of visiting the hotel.
Tuju was alleged of going to the apartments minutes after the four commissioners arrived and stayed at the hotel from 9:54 p.m. to 10:41 p.m.
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Additionally, the former Jubilee SG was alleged to have visited the apartments the following day and visited a separate room, spending more than one hour.
However, details of the meeting were not revealed. Tuju was among the politicians in the spotlight in the August 9 election drama. IEBC chairperson, Wafula Chebukati, accused him of attempting to auction votes to him.
“The Chairman and commissioners Prof. Abdi Guliye and Boya Molu were subjected to a smear campaign by Raphael Tuju who falsely tried to infer ill motive to a visit to him by the three of us when he was involved in a road gruesome road carnage that nearly claimed his life,” Chebukati alleged in his affidavit filed at the Supreme Court.
Tuju had, earlier on, dared the IEBC officials to disclose details of a 2021 meeting that took place at his home, threatening to provide CCTV footage as evidence.
“I want Prof Guliye and Mr Molu to explain what they came to do in my house, what that discussion was about, and the drift of that discussion was more of auctioneers rather than Commissioners.
The four IEBC commissioners are under investigation over allegations that they attempted to subvert the people’s will in the August 9 polls.
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