The National Super Alliance (NASA) has in yet another tirade, accused IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba of colluding with French Firm OT-Morpho to inflate the cost of conducting repeat polls.
NASA co-principal Musalia Mudavadi on Saturday in Vihiga said Chiloba has signed a sh2.4 billion contract with the French based IT firm.
“Jana, Chiloba aliweka sahihi ya pili na OT-Morpho ati wasimamie uchaguzi…tuko tayari kurudia uchaguzi lakini tunataka yeye na wenzake waende nyumbani,” he said as told by the Star.
In English it loosely translates to: “Yesterday, Chiloba signed a fresh deal with OT Morpho for the supply of technology for the fresh poll…we are ready for elections but he has to leave IEBC.”
Mudavadi said opposition will not allow anyone at the electoral commission to squander public money.
“We will not accept that IEBC squanders tax payers money without justifications. The wastage is one of the reasons we cannot allow these officials to stay at the commission,” opined Mudavadi.
In a statement to newsrooms, Mudavadi said IEBC’s technical committee had put the cost at sh800 million.
He tasked IEBC and OT-Morpho to explain to Kenyans how the figures got to sh2.4 billion.
“Furthermore, we are aware the awarded sum is way above the Sh800 million that the IEBC technical committee recommended,” he added.
“Kenyans should be excused if they were to conclude that the offensive amounts are being paid as a bribe to OT-Morpho for a shady job of using technology to tilt elections in favour of Jubilee in the same way it did last month.”
He also roped in Attorney General Githu Muigai and National Treasury CS Henry Rotich to explain on what basis they approved the amount.
By Pharis Kinyua. He’s an online Journalist and an author for Jamhuri News.