IEBC has sacked its procurement manager over a delay to outsource for ballot papers which will be used in the upcoming general elections.
Although the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) released the details of his sacking on Tuesday morning, chairman Wafula Chebukati, in a statement, said Mr Lawy Aura was fired on May 29.
“The Commission on 29 May 2017 relieved the procurement director Lawy Aura of his duties necessitated by incompetence that has made operations untenable as we fast approach the General Election,” Mr Chebukati said in a statement.
He was shown the door just two days after a reported stormy meeting resolved to send the agency’s ICT director, James Muhati, on a 30-day compulsory leave.
Early in the year, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission warned that its preparations for the August elections had been thrown into uncertainty after the High Court nullified a Sh2.5 billion tender awarded to a Dubai-based firm for printing ballot papers .
