Junet: Wetangula, Chebukati Met in Karen to Discuss Ballot Printing

Junet Mohamed, the secretary-general of the Azimio coalition, made the astonishing assertion that a meeting was conducted in Karen to discuss the tender for the ballot papers.

IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati and Bungoma senator Moses Wetangula, according to the Suna East MP, held discussions over the matter in Karen.

According to Junet, a deal was worked out at the said meeting to award the contract to print 200 million ballots to the Greek company Inform Lykos (Hellas).

“We know that you held meetings severally in Karen with the IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati. You can go to court if you want. We know every detail of those meetings,” Junet said.

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Junet claimed that representatives of the Greek company visited Kenya while pretending to be prospective investors in Bungoma County.

“When IEBC announced ballot papers tender you sent someone called Makokha Abdalla to Greece and you invited those guys from Greece to Kenya pretending to be people wanting to invest in Bungoma. They had come for a deal with you,” he said.

The senator was a major actor in the agreement, according to Junet, who even dared him to fight him in court.

In order to enable what he called “the Rigging plot,” he claimed that the agreement reached during the meeting would lead to marked ballot papers being smuggled in across the border of Uganda.

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“We want IEBC to conduct a free, fair and transparent election,” Junet said.

“This is not a matter that can be taken lightly. A ballot paper is very critical instrument in this election.”

The Suna East MP said they are watching closely the plot and will soon unmask those involved in the “rigging plot”.

On Wednesday, however, Wetangula dismissed the claims as false and denied dealing with both the IEBC and the Greek ballot printer.

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He asked the Raila Odinga-led outfit to avoid linking him to their pre-election woes.

“ODM must keep me out of their election woes and come to the reality that they are once again starring at a disastrous election outing,” Wetangula said.

The Odinga campaign on Tuesday asserted that three Greek businessmen were invited to Kenya by the Bungoma Senator in January of last year to talk about “investment opportunities,” and that nine months later, in October of the same year, the same people won a sizable contract from the electoral agency through their firm.

The three Greek businessmen are; Mr Awa David Anderson, Mr Antonio Ramon Fernandez and Mr Gkrekis Konstantinos.

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He is also said to have written to  the Greek ambassador to Kenya, Antonios Sgourpoulos, on June 10, 2021, pushing to have Mr Joshua Abdalla Makokha, issued with a Schengen visa to enable him to travel to Athens, Greece.

The former minority leader in the Senate also denied knowing the said Mr Makokha.