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Commissioner Irene Masit Says In Her Affidavit Only Chebukati Knew Of The Venezuelans’ Arrival

SK 2 years ago 2 min read

Irene Masit, a commissioner for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, has questioned IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati about his dubious interactions with three Venezuelan citizens who are the subject of allegations of vote-rigging and who were apprehended with election-related materials at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Masit claims that only Chebukati was aware of the three Venezuelans’ journey and the materials they were carrying into the country, and that neither the commission nor anyone else was anticipating any electoral materials at the time they arrived.

Chebukati did not inform the commissioners – in the plenary or by any means of communication – that the foreigners would be flying in with election material, thus they were unaware of them until the trio was detained at JKIA with election materials.

“It is not by surprise that in the month of July, 2022 when the nation was struck by the news of Venezuela nations Salvador Javier Sosa Suarez, Joel Gustavo Rodriguez Garcia and Jose Grecorio Castellanos, a matter that is now in the public domain, arrested having arrived in the country with election materials none of the commissioners was aware of their coming nor possession of election materials but the chairman, Wafula Chebukati,” reads her affidavit in part.

“The chairperson indeed went out public to defend the foreign nationals when the commission did not even expect election materials at the time thereby depicting the true person of the chairperson of the IEBC singly usurping the powers of the Commission albeit illegally and unconstitutionally.”

“I was not aware of the coming of the foreign nationals with election materials and the same had not been brought to the attention of the commissioners either at the plenary or through any other form of communication and it was surprising as it was suspicious that the chairperson was the only person aware of their arrival,” Masit noted.