NAIROBI, Kenya
Kenya’s electoral agency says
an ongoing audit of its voters’ roll has found the names of nearly 250,000
deceased voters on the register.
Nearly half a million more
voters were found to have duplicate records and more than 226,000 people were
registered using documents that do not belong to them.
“Others had registered with
invalid documents.” the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)
said in a statement on the anomalies that affect more than a million people.
IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati
said that because of the “implementation of the preliminary audit findings” the
commission would delay certifying the final register for publication.
The commission said earlier
that it would publish the register of voters on or before 9 June but has pushed
that to 20 June as it seeks to address the findings by KPMG, the firm
contracted to do the audit.
Electoral irregularities in
past elections in Kenya have led to deadly violence. This year’s elections will
be held on 9 August.
Four presidential candidates
have been cleared to run in the election – David Mwaure, George Wajackoyah,
Raila Odinga and William Ruto.
No comments:
Post a Comment