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Cherera Fires Back At Chebukati For Claiming They Were Plotting To Deny Ruto’s Results

SK 2 years ago 2 min read

Juliana Cherera, the vice chair of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), has led three other commissioners in an assault against Wafula Chebukati in response to his claims that the group attempted to force a runoff in order to prevent President-elect William Ruto from winning in a clear-cut manner.

Cherera, Francis Wanderi, Justus Nyangaya, and Irene Masit, the four IEBC commissioners, rejected Chebukati’s assertions and brought up important questions about the IEBC chairman’s conduct in relation to the recently completed August 9 elections.

The commissioners observed that Chebukati misinterpreted their claims and declined to confirm the outcomes, which he then utilized to formally appoint William Ruto as the next president.

They said that Chebukati acted unilaterally and in violation of the constitution because he tried to frustrate the choice of the people by overseeing a murky procedure whose outcomes the commission could not jointly own.

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The angry commissioners further stated that since they had no involvement in the results’ processing, Chebukati should have validated the figures he had published before announcing William Ruto as the winner.

“We wish to categorically state that from his statement, the chairman Mr Chebukati appears to have misconstrued his role and that of the commissioners and further misunderstood his Constitutional and legal mandate to verify results by the Commission to mean what he vaguely characterized as ‘moderation’ of those results,” Cherera slammed.

According to the four commissioners, Chebukati flouted the law and ignored their roles as he went ahead to unilaterally use results that had not been verified to declare William Ruto as the president-elect, further subverting the will of the people.

“The chairman went ahead to unilaterally declare the results without any plenary verification whatsoever by all the commissioners and/or their participation as mandated by the Constitution and electoral laws.”