Azimio Hosted Cherera 4 In Ksh17K Kilimani Hotel After Bomas Chaos
Cherera, Francis Wanderi, Justus Nyangaya and Irene Masit, had met high-profile Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition leaders over the five days...
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Details of events that transpired after former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), vice chairperson Juliana Cherera and three other commissioners held their infamous press conference on Monday, August 15 disowning the presidential results have emerged.
The evidence that surfaced on Tuesday, December 13 showed that the four, Cherera, Francis Wanderi, Justus Nyangaya and Irene Masit, had met high-profile Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition leaders over the five days that followed the presser at Serena Hotel on the same day IEBC chairperson Wafula Chebukati was to announce the results.
In the evidence presented before Justice Aggrey Muchelule's tribunal currently investigating them, the quartet were booked into an exclusive apartment in Nairobi's affluent Kilimani neighbourhood known as Yaya Apartments, which presented logs that showed that the four commissioners checked in on August 15, with their bookings done by a person identified as Edwin Ong’ong’a Ogwe.
Yaya Apartments in Kilimani, Nairobi. /FACEBOOK
“Edwin previously stayed in the apartments earlier in the year and he was, therefore, a repeat guest. At 8:36 pm on August 15, four guests accompanied by bodyguards and other individuals arrived for the check-in.
"The four guests were identified as IEBC commissioners, and two went to the apartments as one of the bodyguards and two other commissioners passed by the reception for the check-in process. They were, however, unwilling to provide their details,” said the letter addressed to Murage dated December 12, 2022, as reported by the Nation.
Ogwe however did not accompany the commissioners when they checked in after the presser and returned the following day to pay for the rooms, which go for approximately Ksh17,683 per night, as per different hotel booking websites. The Cherera four were then believed to have checked out of the apartments on August 19 at 3 pm.
The hotel has released to Murage the visitors’ book, the log-in details as well as CCTV footage and identity of some of the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya leaders who visited the commissioners at the apartments and payment vouchers.
Among the top Azimio politicians included former Jubilee party secretary general, Rafael Tuju, and KANU's Nick Salat. Tuju was alleged to have visited the apartments where the commissioners checked in and stayed from 9:54 pm to 10:41 pm.
He was also believed to have returned to Yaya Apartments the following day and visited a separate room for more than an hour.
Details of the meeting were however not disclosed. Tuju was among the politicians featured majorly in the August 9 election drama, with Chebukati accusing him and former Busia Senator, Amos Wako of bribing him to change the presidential results to favour Azimio leader, Raila Odinga.
"That Raphael Tuju spoke after Senator Wako. He indicated that it was necessary for the results to be 'moderated in favour of baba' and that any contrary declaration of results would 'plunge the country into chaos'. As an alternative, he suggested that in the event that it was not possible to declare 'baba' as the President-elect, then the Commission should force a run-off," Chebukati said in his affidavit filed at the Supreme Court, adding that he was promised a reward in the event his request is granted.
He further claimed that he and commissioners Prof. Abdi Guliye and Boya Molu were subjected to a smear campaign by Tuju who falsely tried to infer ill motive for a visit to him by the three commissioners when he was involved in a road gruesome road carnage that nearly claimed his life.
Tuju however dared the IEBC officials to disclose details of a 2021 meeting that took place at his home, threatening to provide CCTV footage as evidence. Neither he nor the Azimio leaders named in the new report were yet to respond by the time of publication.
Chebukati was summoned by the tribunal investigating the four commissioners and will be expected to give an account of the events that transpired during the August 9 general elections and the events that surrounded the preparation of the presidential election results.
Cherera, Nyang'aya and Wanderi resigned from the commission, with Masit remaining firm and throwing investigations in limbo after she expressed her intention to challenge the investigations in court.
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