Even with the recent purge on corruption by President Uhuru Kenyatta that has seen 1/3 of his Cabinet sent packing and several other senior Government officials interdicted, the ghost still haunts the Jubilee administration.
Pressure is mounting on the Government, through the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), to pay a whopping sh1.5 billion for the supply of election kits which were never delivered.
Sources intimated that some brokers, led by a prominent Jubilee MP from North Eastern and a cartel of officials from the Treasury, want IEBC Chief Executive Officer, Ezra Chiloba, to pay Equip Agencies Ltd sh 1.53 billion for the supply of Universal Polling Kits (UPK), which according to the Auditor General, Edward Ouko, were never delivered.
A special audit report for the 2013 elections dated June 2014 established that out of the 34, 000 kits that were to be delivered before elections, Equip Agencies only delivered 5, 000 one year after the polls.
But even with the damning report, IEBC has been slapped with a sh1.5 billion bill and Chiloba is now under pressure from some corrupt officials in Government and a prominent politician to pay the money because the contract still stands even after elections.
“The IEBC Secretariat is being pushed to process the payment even with the damning audit findings. Powerful forces within IEBC and Treasury are insisting the contract still holds and he must pay,” said one of the senior members of IEBC who refused to be named.
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