So people stopped growing up in some regions of this country. This is absurd
Cord yesterday claimed that officers from the National Intelligence Service are being recruited to preside over the 2017 general election.
The coalition said the IEBC is training NIS officers in batches of 100 to participate in the elections, but warned the conspiracy tilting the electoral landscape will backfire “and the cost may be too high for the country”.
Cord said the NIS agents are targeted for recruitment as Presiding Officers, Returning Officers and Registration Clerks with the sole aim of manipulating numbers and names in Jubilee’s favour.
In a press statement, the leaders of Cord’s constituent parties challenged the Electoral and Boundaries Commission to come clean and explain the NIS’s role in the voter registration scheduled to start next month.
“We sense a nasty plan to aid the registration of under-age voters, particularly in parts of the country where virtually every eligible voter was registered in 2013 and now has no new voter to add,” the statement said.
It was signed by representatives of the ODM, Wiper and Ford Kenya parties.
But when contacted, the IEBC chief executive officer, Ezra Chiloba, rubbished the claims, saying the commission was “utterly dismayed” by the statement.
“The commission will be issuing a detailed response to the country on the issues,” Chiloba said.
The IEBC in December announced it will conduct a mass voter registration exercise starting February 4 to March 4, in which it targets to recruit four million new voters.
Yesterday Cord opposed the IEBC proposal to conduct registration at the Ward level and demanded the exercise be conducted at the polling stations.
“We demand clarity, well aware that in the run-up to 2013, the IEBC presided over an overwhelmingly skewed distribution of voter registration kits,” the statement said.
It was signed by John Mbadi, chairman ODM; David Musila, chairman Wiper; and Esseli Simiyu, secretary general Ford Kenya
The three said while Central Kenya had at least one registration kit per polling station in 2013, other parts of the country had one kit shared by four to five polling stations.
“The IEBC should clarify on the number of registration centres for the February voter registration exercise, how those centres have been selected and their distribution across the country and the various constituencies.”
The coalition says it is privy to information the IEBC plans to deploy one registration kit per ward in parts of the country perceived to be supportive of the opposition.
The parties said this will not work and described it as “a window dressing exercise” meant to create an impression that registration of voters did take place when in reality nothing happens.
“IEBC should read the mood of the nation and act accordingly. These acts of opacity, manifestations of involvement in a conspiracy to tilt the electoral landscape will backfire.”
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/01/12/cord-nis-is-being-recruited-for-2017-poll_c1274075