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              Photo: Letter Issued by IEBC

Some hours after the ODM party gave out a directive they will be holding demonstrations to the IEBC Headquarters today as from 9.00Am , IEBC has responded in a press statement sent to media today wednesday morning. The IEBC disregarded the claims by the ODM party that they had refused to release the list of registered voters in Kibra Constituency has claimed by the ODM party yesterday. The IEB said that it has been busy updating and preparing the new list since the position of the member of Kibra Constituency was declared vacant by the speaker of the national assembly Hon Justin Muturi in August this year. 

 Image: Speaker Justin Muturi during the Past Event

According to the IEBC, the body has been busy uploading the CVR data to the Biometric Voter Registration BVR server, deduplication process, producing preliminary register, doing quality assurance, certifying and distributing the registers to the constituency. The press statement went on to give out that the constituency had received a significant number of new enrollments as well as voter transfers since the time the seat was declared vacant on August this year.This is the press statement by the IEBC as quoted below; 



“In preparation of the Kibra by-election, the commission embarked on the process of facilitating the voters registered during Continuous Voter Registration CVR, to participate in the upcoming by-election immediately after receiving the notice of vacancy from the speaker of the National Assembly,” reads part of the statement. 
IEBC also acknowledged receiving three different letters from ODM on three different dates but maintained all the letters were responded to and clear directions issued. It also revealed that all preliminary voter registers for 2017 wil be availed to the constituents from Wednesday by the constituency’s Returning Officer. 


IEBC also assured Kibra voters that the final register which is still undergoing verifications will be read anytime before by election.It also assured the kibra by election will be conducted free and fair.On yesterday afternoon, the ODM party members led by ODM party chairman John Mbadi and Suna East Mp Junet Mohammed issued a press statement that they will hold a demonstration at IEBC headquarters on Wednesday to demand a full list of voters since 2017, including the dates and centres of registration since the position was declared vacant, they also demanded IEBc to update them on the manual and electronic registes of voters which be used during by election.






ODM party director of elections Junet Mohamed termed IEBC’s unwillingness to release the list as one way the commission was planning to rig their candidate out in the by-election and they added that if the demands are not met they have no otherwise but to withdraw from the competition. The by-election will be held on 7th November,2019, this happen after the death of former Mp Ken Okoth due to Cancer on July this year. 

               MP Junet Mahamed Speaking To IEBC
The Aspirant for this position are ODM party candidate Imran Okoth who is brother to late Ken Okoth, Jubilee Party Candidate Macdonald Mariga , ANC candidate Eliud Owalo among other 22 candidates. 

Kibra by-election will be held on November 7, 2019, in a bid to fill the seat that was left vacant after the death of former MP Ken Okoth who succumbed to cancer in July this year.

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 By Daniel Mutuva