IEBC Official Tells Court That Gladys Wanga Stole the Election

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Friday, November 25, 2022 –Electoral official has implicated Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga in the just-ended general elections.

The presiding officer of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission IEBC today Friday November 25 claimed to the court that he was forced, at gun point, to alter results in favour of the incumbent, Gladys Wanga.

The official who was based at Ongeti Primary School Polling Station in Kochwa Ward Rangwe told the court that astronomical electoral malpractices took place at the gubernatorial level in Homa Bay County.

Making his submission as the first witness before Justice Roselyne Aburuli at Homa Bay High Court in a case filed by Dr. Evans Kidero, the ex-presiding officer mentioned that results at the governor’s level were manipulated at an industrial scale and cannot be trusted as they are.

“Immediately after counting votes, a group of rowdy youths came and switched off the lights, pointed a gun at me, and forced me to record cooked results,” he testified without clarifying the whereabouts of the security personnel at the polling station when all these was taking place.

“I went to report the incident at Rangwe Police Station and stand by my words, that the election was not fair at Ongeti Primary Polling Station,” added the official.

He went ahead to state that IEBC failed to conduct a free and verifiable election exercise and, therefore, urged the court to nullify the results that favoured Ms Wanga.

Without mincing words, the IEBC official added that the whole exercise was marred with massive irregularities and ought to be reviewed for the sake of the area electorates.

But in a sharp rebuttal, Wanga’s lawyers argued that the counting and tallying process went on in peace and that the official was present to oversee the whole exercise.

The governor’s lawyers added that the witness, as an afterthought, was biased against their clients and canniot be taken serious by the court.