•He spoke on Friday at the Kakamega High School tallying centre where he was presented his certificate by the county returning officer Joseph Ayatta.
•Khalwale who vied on the UDA ticket garnered 249,003 votes against his main rival Brian Lishenga of ODM who had 195,192 votes.
Kakamega Senator-elect Boni Khalwale has said he will restructure the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. This, he said, will be his first assignment.
Khalwale said the Election Act must be reviewed to fix issues like Kiems kits failure, voter bribery and protecting the commission.
He spoke on Friday at the Kakamega High School tallying centre where he was presented his certificate by the county returning officer Joseph Ayatta.
Khalwale who vied on the UDA ticket garnered 249,003 votes against his main rival Brian Lishenga of ODM who had 195,192 votes.
“IEBC is very vulnerable to the extent that nobody factored the human nature because human beings can be subject to fatigue,” he said.
“We will make sure every polling station and constituency has two presiding officers, two polling clerks and two sets of returning officers at the constituency level and two sets of the same at the county level.”
He said this will help the IEBC officers who handle the polling exercise hand over to the fresh set of officers to handle the tallying session.
Khalwale said they will double the number of IEBC officers to make the process faster.
“These are the issues that should be addressed to maintain the integrity of elections,” he said.
Others in the race were Winfred Asiko who got 14,602 votes, Sellah Keya (UDP) had 11,916 and Patrick Butichi got 11,881 voteChrispus Kaira (Independent) had 8,387 votes and Sammy Aina (Jubilee) had 6,491 votes.
Khalwale is making a come-back after staying out of parliament for five years after serving as an MP for Ikolomani for two terms and having been elected to the Senate at the advent of devolution in 2013.
In 2017 he joined the Kakamega gubernatorial race in which he lost to Wycliffe Oparanya who was going for his second term.
Edited by Kiilu Damaris