President William Ruto has responded to allegations made by Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance leader Raila Odinga who said that three officials of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) visited him at his Karen home before the results of the August 9, 2022 General Elections were announced.
Ruto who was speaking in Mombasa on Monday, January 30 during the 16th Annual General Meeting and Conference of Africa Prosecutors’ Association wondered why Raila did not reveal that the three IEBC officials visited him when he sought legal redress over the August 9 election results at the Supreme Court.
“I was listening yesterday to one of our politicians who was alleging that members of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission went to his house. And he is telling this story five months after the act. And he is volunteering this information laced with insinuations that the officials had gone there for something he has not disclosed.
“It begs the question, if it is true, what were these officials doing in your house at your invitation? Being a candidate how did you end up inviting officials of an independent body at your house? It also begs the question; you had an opportunity to bring up this evidence of alleged bribery to before seven judges of the Supreme Court. You did not. You have instead chosen to take this big announcement to a political rally,” Ruto said.
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On Sunday, January 29, Raila who held a political rally at the historical Jacaranda grounds alleged that former IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati and commissioners Abdi Guliye and Boya Molu visited him before the results were announced.
“Chebukati stated that some people tried to bribe him. Ask them what they came to ask me when they visited my house. Inform them that I have photos and I can expose them,” Raila said.
The former premier further claimed that the tribunal led by Court of Appeal Judge Aggrey Muchelule was a political witch-hunt against former IEBC vice-chair Juliana Cherera and ex-commissioner Justus Nyang’aya and commissioner Irene Masit and Francis Wanderi.
“They placed a tribunal to prosecute Cherera and her friends, Irene Masit stated that she would stand trial. I informed Masit that she is like a sheep going to a pack of hyenas, but she told me that she would stand trial and face them in order to defend the truth,” Raila said.
