Azimio presidential candidate Raila Odinga has formally complained to the Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission over what he termed a ‘worrying’ delay in addressing issues raised by the coalition.
Raila’s chief legal advisor Paul Mwangi on Monday said the coalition has written to IEBC to protest the studious silence since they raised fundamental issues key to the conduct of next month's polls.
Speaking to the Star on phone, Mwangi said the electoral agency has gone quiet on them.
“They (IEBC) have not responded to our letter and we have written to them complaining that they have not responded to our letters,” Mwangi said.
The letter was dispatched to the commission on Monday, 12 days since Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance party raised seven concerns around IEBC’s poll preparedness.
IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati during the presidential candidate meeting on Wednesday last week committed to responding to the Azimio concerns in writing.
Attempts to reach Chebukati and IEBC CEO Hussein Murjan for a comment were unsuccessful as they neither picked up phone calls nor responded to messages.
Last month, the Raila team raised questions on IEBC’s decision to disallow the use of manual registers in the 46,000 polling stations countrywide.
Azimio has insisted on hybrid voter identification where the manual register is complementary to the digital system being pushed by the Chebukati team.
Of most concern for the Azimio presidential candidate is assurance that the digital identification will not fail and voters turned away on the voting day.
Raila has so far declared manual registering a minimum when it comes to voters' identification on the voting day.
He questioned the KIEMS kit number gap after the commission said it will provide only 11,000 gadgets in case of any failure to the 46,000 polling stations.
The letter dated June 22 said the digital identification is opaque and fails the serious questions on accountability of the entire process of identification.
The team has asked the commission to provide them with a copy of the voters register audit report by KPMG, a request the commission is yet to honour.
“They have not given us voters register yet,” Mwangi said.
Edited by Kiilu Damaris
