Azimio MPs claim IEBC Commissioners wasting public funds on non-essential foreign trips
Azimio la Umoja One Kenya
coalition party Members of Parliament are now accusing three outgoing IEBC
commissioners and their CEO Marjan Hussein Marjan of allegedly pilfering
millions of taxpayers’ money since September this year.
The MPs, led by Minority Leader
Opiyo Wandayi, claim IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati, and Commissioners Abdi Guliye
and Boya Mulu, have embezzled monies on valueless foreign trips.
They claim that the trips have
been given as an award to those who ensured that the presidential election results
came out in a predetermined way.
“The outgoing commissioners have
gone on a rampage by misusing public resources, which have been allocated to
IEBC for its operations. We have recorded multiple foreign trips on unspecified
missions and engineered to benefit a select group in the commission,” said
Wandayi.
The Ugunja MP questioned why the
commissioners have refused to proceed on terminal leave as is the norm in other
jurisdictions pending their exit from office early next year.
“The President has embargoed
foreign travels…we are asking, why is IEBC exempt from this moratorium to
engage in a spending spree on non-essential matters?” He posed.
The MPs are now demanding a
special audit on how the resources of the commission have been used since
elections, claiming millions have been lost.
“IEBC staff, from the Chairman to
CEO and directors, are globe-trotting on trips whose value to taxpayers remains
unknown. Between the months of September and November alone, millions of
shillings have been gobbled up by select groups within the IEBC,” stated Lugari
MP Nabii Nabwira.
The legislators revealed that for
over three weeks, the outgoing commissioners have been away travelling to South
Africa, Malaysia, Dubai, USA and Angola.
The legislators also faulted the
move by Chebukati and Marjan to unilaterally award the tender of printing ballot
papers to be used in the by-elections to Greek firm Inform Lykos, saying it goes
against the regulation that such tenders b given to local companies.
“IEBC CEO Marjan Hussein should produce the
framework contract between the IEBC and the Greek printing firm, Inform Lykos,
including duration of the contract, the individual, corporate and country
contractual obligations, and the liability costs in the case the contract is
breached,” Nabwera stated.
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