The presiding officer whose wrong entry resulted in a scuffle in Kandara was arraigned alongside the returning officer on Tuesday.
John Kiguru was charged with making a false entry in contravention to the Elections Act at Kiiri polling station on October 26.
Elections prosecutor Mutuma Mwereru told the Kandara court that Kiguru unlawfully entered 440 presidential votes garnered by Uhuru Kenyatta a Japheth Kaluyu's in Form 34A.
The court also heard that the presiding officer had reasonable cause to believe the entry was wrong.
Kiguru did not take plea before
senior resident magistrate Manuela Kinyanjui as the case was deferred to Murang'a courts.
The magistrate noted he committed an electoral offence and that the court had no jurisdiction over it.
"The file will be transfered to Murang'a law courts, where there is an electoral court, for plea-taking and trial," Kinyanjui said.
Kiguru was apprehended on Monday after IEBC
lodged a complaint against him and is being held at Kandara police station.
A video emerged of returning officer squabbling with Kandara MP Alice Wahome over the wrong entry.
The MP has been praised and condemned in equal measure by NASA and Jubilee Party officials who differed on her itnentions.
Wahome explained she only wanted the RO to acknowledge the PO made a wrong entry and decide on the best course of action.
She said Malonza did not cooperate, resulting in the recording, but noted he was wrong as President Uhuru Kenyatta "got all votes".
The IEBC called for the prosecution of the MP before the DPP ordered her arrest.
Residents protested, saying they would march to DPP Keriako Tobiko and IG Joseph Boinnet's offices in Nairobi should police arrest the MP.
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