Friday, November 25, 2022 –Electoral official has told the court that Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga stole elections.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission IEBC presiding official, today Friday November 2,5 claimed to the court that he was forced, at gun point, to alter results in favour of the incumbent, Gladys Wanga.
The official who was based at Ongeti Primary School Polling Station in Kochwa Ward Rangwe told the court that astronomical electoral malpractices took place at the gubernatorial level in Homa Bay and it cannot be described as free and fair.
Making his submission as the first witness before Justice Roselyne Aburuli at Homa Bay High Court in a case filed by Der. Evans Kidero, the ex-Presiding officer mentioned that results at the governor level were highly manipulated.
“Immediately after counting votes, a group of rowdy youths came and switched off the lights, pointed a gun at me, and forced me to record cooked results,” he testified without clarifying the whereabouts of the security personnel at the polling station when all these was taking place.
“I went to report the incident at Rangwe Police Station and stand by my words, that the election was not fair at Ongeti Primary Polling Station,” added the official.
He went ahead to state that IEBC failed to conduct a free and verifiable election exercise in Homa Bay and urged the court to nullify the results.
But in a sharp rebuttal, Wanga’s lawyers wondered why the official remained silent during the whole counting and tallying process.
