CORD leader Raila Odinga has claimed that he has been told by IEBC commissioners how he was rigged out in the 2013 general elections.
Speaking during the plenary session of the Law Society of Kenya annual conference yesterday, the opposition chief said after agreeing to step aside, the commissioners met him and divulged how they manipulated the polls.
Raila said the commissioners told him they transported over two million votes via plane to Kenyatta University.
The commissioners then allegedly failed to mark the two million votes and therefore they decided to crash the system to manipulate the votes manually.
Raila said Cord took the 2013 election results to London for analysis.
The results, he said, indicated some 10 million people voted for all the elective seats apart from the presidency.
This is why the presidential vote tally had over 12 million votes, a difference of over two million votes.
“Senior lawyers said if this was in the US, some people would have gone to jail and the results overturned,” said Raila.
This comes on the backdrop of the IEBC commissioners led by chair Isaack Hassan agreeing to exit on condition that they be given an exit package.
Already, the Joint Select Committee on IEBC has announced that a new IEBC team to be recruited will comprise of seven full-time commissioners.
Earlier making his speech, Raila said the electoral agency has been the stumbling block for Kenyans’ hope of having a genuine government in place.
He accused the government of having a hand in rigging polls arguing that traditionally, major episodes of corruption, including the Goldenberg scandal, have always accompanied polls.
He said the proposed cap on election spending is a lie and is a pointer to the amount of sleaze in the government.
According to IEBC’s proposed regulations, the presidential campaign budget for any candidate should not exceed Sh5 billion, while that of gubernatorial and senatorial aspirants should not exceed Sh500 million.
“This is a lie. One cannot spend such kind of money judging by the economy of the country,” Raila said.
He said he was not consulted on the caps and that the proposal was Jubilee’s and not the IEBC’s.
He said the caps are loopholes created by Jubilee for them to use stolen cash on campaigns.
