Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi is set on a collision path with the ruling Jubilee coalition.
Musalia Mudavadi, on Sunday, December 27, publicly claimed that the President Uhuru’s team is out to steal the 2017 elections by manipulating Independent the Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
“The government has embarked on a dangerous scheme to starve IEBC of money needed for voter registration… Already Jubilee support bases have achieved registration targets. This is stealing an election by connivance and Kenyans should not allow this to happen,” said Musalia Mudavadi as quoted byDaily Nation.
The former deputy prime minister, who was addressing leaders from western Kenya region at his home in Vihiga county, added that over 800,000 people from the region had not been registered as IEBC lacked adequate funds for the exercise.
Musalia Mudavadi has already announced that he will challenge Uhuru for the seat once again. In the 2013 presidential race, he came at a distant third after Uhuru and CORD leader Raila Odinga.
The electoral body’s CEO Ezra Chiloba had also threatened to boycott the elections set for August 8, 2017 over the funding issue.
“We have requested KSh 2 billion to conduct voter registration and the National Treasury has only allocated KSh 500 million, this is unacceptable. We don’t like this at all at the commission. We are targeting to register around 4.4 million by next year February and another 4 million before the polls, how will this agenda be realized with enough funds,” Chiloba said.
Chiloba said that they were left to beg for donations from development partners to complement the inadequate funds from the government which is supposed to foot 95% of their bills.
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