With four days to the General Election, United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Presidential Candidate William Ruto has penned a letter to Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairman, Wafula Chebukati, over alleged plans to rig the Election.
In a letter dated Saturday, July 30, and made public on August 3, UDA national head agent Abraham Kithure Kindiki, implicated President Uhuru Kenyatta in a conspiracy to utilize public personnel to meddle with the electoral process.
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Kindiki said that police personnel and national government officials were being utilized to sway the August 9 voting in favour of the Azimio La Umoja Presidential Candidate, Raila Odinga.
“We have received credible information that the Office of the President is deploying police officers to intimidate and harass voters to support the presidential candidate for Azimio,” Kindiki’s letter read in part.
He further claimed that the government deployed administrators to bribe voters on the election date to compromise Kenya Kwanza’s strongholds.
“We have also reliably learned that the public officers may be deployed by the state to induce voters and in some cases intimidate them by compromising the peace on the election day.”
The outgoing Tharaka Nithi Senator accused the President of committing an election felony by publicly backing a presidential candidate, alleging that President Uhuru is using state resources to fund his campaign.
“Section 16 of the Public Officers Ethics Act (2003) requires complete political neutrality by all public officers and prohibits them from acting as agents for or furthering the interests of a political party or candidate in an election,” Kindiki argued.
Ruto wants the Chebukati-led Commission to investigate the claims, stating that they might jeopardize the integrity of the August 9 elections.
On Wednesday, August 3, while on a visit to Kisii, President Uhuru Kenyatta referred to his deputy’s recent complaints as “kicks of a dying horse,” after understanding that his presidential candidacy was in peril.
He paralleled Ruto to a bus driver who was distracted from the road by an untrustworthy conductor. He continued to state that the “driver” eventually loses control and crashes into a ditch.
However, the interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i also cleared himself and his Principal Secretary, Karanja Kibicho, of charges that they were behind the acquisition of national ID cards and the circulation of inciteful leaflets.
