NASA key witness highlights irregularities and fears for his life

IEBC officials and agents at the Bomas of Kenya,

NAIROBI—Mr Moses Wamuru, the Embu County ODM chairman who also served as the NASA county coordinator in August 8 General Elections, on Tuesday said that his life is in danger.

Speaking to the media in Embu town, the official said NASA agents were being harassed and frustrated on voting day and thus did not witness most of the voting and vote tallying process.

“We didn’t witness voting in various stations since many of the agents were chased away,” he claimed.

He said he was being intimidated due to his stand on the just concluded poll, where he claimed he witnessed several irregularities at various polling stations in the county.

“I do not feel secure. In the last three days I have noticed people trailing me. I have been receiving information from very close friends in places that I frequent. I have visited several entertainment joints and people have told me I am not safe there,” said Mr Wamuru.

The official said fellow party agents were also being summoned to the local Independent Elections and Boundaries Commission offices in what he claimed was “a move to amend Forms 34A”.

Embu County IEBC coordinator Dan Lenarum denied that his office had summoned NASA agents.

“We have not talked to any party agents. The people we have called are presiding officers and they are part of our defence,” he told Daily Nation on phone.

At Karurumo Polytechnic, Kieni South, the NASA agent noted and raised complaints on voters being given between 2 and 3 Presidential ballot papers. At one time, the NASA agent confronted the voter and clerk and witnessed that the voter had 8 ballot papers,” stated Wamuru affidavit.

The Embu chief agent describes another incident in Kiangongi Primary School, in Runyejes, where he claims ballot papers were clearly being marked hours after the voting process ended.

In Manyatta Constituency, Wamuru said he received reports that NASA agents were compromised by the county commissioner and the head of police.

He also said that the Embu County Commissioner Esther Maina ordered for the blocking of all NASA agents from most polling stations across the region.