HOW JUBILEE RIGGED ELECTIONS, U

The Jubilee Coalition colluded with
corrupt election officials to print
extra ballot papers that were used
to rig the 2013 presidential
election, the Coalition for Reforms
and Democracy has claimed.
Cord leader Raila Odinga on
Tuesday said the extra ballot
papers were printed by Smith &
Ouzman, a British firm, and
smuggled into Kenya days before
the March 2013 elections.
“Extra ballot papers were printed
and transported to Kenya through
Geneva, Switzerland, and even the
NIS was aware of this. I can
produce a person who was in
Geneva and saw all this,” Mr
Odinga said at a news conference
in Nairobi.
The smuggled ballot papers were
taken to “Jubilee areas”, according
to the Cord leader, who was
accompanied by co-principal
Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses
Wetang’ula.
“They were the ones which some
of our MPs found being counted at
Kenyatta University.”
Mr Odinga made the claims in the
wake of reports from a UK court
that Kenyan election officials
received millions of shillings in
bribes from the British company
over a two-year period.
UK prosecutors have filed in court
papers accusing senior election
officials of corruption, including
Independent Electoral and
Boundaries Commission (IEBC)
chairman Ahmed Issack Hassan,
former chief executive James
Oswago, former official Davis
Chirchir (Energy Cabinet
Secretary) and former deputy chief
executive of the IEBC’s
predecessor, the Interim
Independent Electoral Commission,
Mrs Gladys Shollei.
The allegations, made in the
prosecution of Smith & Ouzman
Ltd and four of its directors for
corruption at the Southwark
Crown court relate to the Interim
Independent Electoral Commission
and are alleged to have occured
between 2009 and 2010.
DEMANDED RESIGNATION
Mr Odinga demanded the
immediate resignation, arrest and
prosecution of Mr Hassan, Mr
Chirchir, Mrs Shollei and current
and former IIEC and IEBC officials
linked to the fraud allegations.
He said Cord’s 900-page evidence
that was rejected by the Supreme
Court, where he had challenged
the 2013 presidential election
results, contained evidence
showing that extra ballot papers
were printed and smuggled into
the country to help Jubilee steal
the election.
“Of concern beyond the corruption
allegations is that Smith &
Ouzman, apart from giving bribes
to the Kenyan election officials,
also printed additional ballot
papers for Jubilee, which were
used to rig the 2013 presidential
elections,” Mr Odinga said.
Mrs Shollei, who was sacked as
Judiciary registrar on claims of
corruption, had presided over the
scrutiny of the IEBC tallying of
votes on behalf of the Supreme
Court in the 2013 election petition,
he said.
“Before joining the Judiciary, she
was an official at IEBC and is
implicated in the corruption,” Mr
Odinga said.
He accused Mr Chirchir of
representing the Jubilee Coalition
in the scrutiny of votes at the
Supreme Court despite his alleged
role in the corrupt dealings at the
IIEC.
“What is being adduced in court in
London points to a serous, baffling
and shameful integrity and
credibility gap on the part of these
present and former officers and an
indictment of the Jubilee regime.
“It cannot be that Jubilee does not
know what these officers did.”