IEBC admits links to Seamless company
IEBC admits links to Seamless company, a firm in the center storm of the three Venezuelans arrested in the country with election materials.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has finally admitted it has links with the Seamless firm, a local agent of Smartmatic company.
Smartmatic is the company contracted by the IEBC to deploy voting technology for voter identification and transmission of results in the August polls.
The commissioner in charge of technology, Justus Nyang’aya on Wednesday, 27, July said that the commission only has a contract with Smartmatic.
“It’s them (Smartmatic) who chose the local company. That was not our duty. This is not the first time they are working with Seamless Technologies, they had worked with them even before this election,” Mr. Nyang’aya said.
He pointed out that Smartmatic had included in the tender that it would work with Seamless Technologies as its local agent.
However, no details of the past work done by the company or how it was contracted have been provided by the commission.
The IEBC gave the details yesterday, 27, July as it received the first batch of 225 pallets of presidential ballot papers from Greece.
The Commission (IEBC) said it will receive the last batch on August 3 and not July 29 as earlier indicated.
The 225 pallets received yesterday are destined for 18 counties, including Mombasa, Kwale, Kilifi, Tana River, Lamu, Taita Taveta, Garissa, and Wajir. Others are Marsabit, Isiolo, Meru, Tharaka Nithi, Embu, Kitui, Machakos, Makueni, Nyandarua and Nyeri.
The electoral commission has so far received 65.2 million ballot papers out of the expected 132 million.
The ballot papers for the diaspora are expected to arrive in the country today (Thursday).
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