Kenyan elections are unnecessarily expensive, an IEBC commissioner candidate has told the selection panel.
Joseph Gitile Naituli, a professor of management and leadership at Multimedia University, on Tuesday said Kenyan polls are expensive because of some of the decisions made by the electoral body and its stakeholders.
He explained that there was no reason for the electoral agency to print ballot papers abroad.
“Some of these decisions are driven by lack of trust in Kenyan institutions. However, the electioneering period should not be a season of people to do business,” he stated.
If appointed a commissioner, Naituli said he will persuade the chair of the polls agency and colleagues and stakeholders - among them political parties and the Office of Registrar of Political Parties - to print ballot papers locally.
“We need to come together and have a committee that will oversee the printing of ballot papers and use the government printer. We will end up saving a lot of money,” he added.
“We need to stop this distrust in our institutions. I am sure my idea will be supported. I am very persuasive and the chair is a patriotic Kenyan. As a patriotic Kenyan, he would want to spend all money in Kenya,” he stated.
