Chebukati To Expose Cherera Four In Ongoing Probe
He will be expected to give an account of the events that transpired during the August 9 general elections
Marvin Chege 
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairperson, Wafula Chebukati, will be expected to testify against the four breakaway commissioners that include his former junior, Juliana Cherera.
An NTV report on Friday, December 9 revealed that Chebukati was summoned by the tribunal investigating the four commissioners, chaired by Justice Aggrey Mucheule.
He 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.
IEBC chairperson Wafula Chebukati and Vice-chair Juliana Cherera. /FILE
Commissioners Abdi Guliye and Boya Molu will also testify during the investigations.
Further reports intimated that the trio had already prepared their affidavits which will be submitted to the tribunal in the coming days.
Cherera alongside Justus Nyang'aya, Irene Masit and Francis Wanderi are accused of almost subverting the will of the people in the elections that saw William Ruto declared Kenya's fifth president, beating Azimio la Umoja coalition leader, Raila Odinga.
They were also accused of vouching for the results to be altered so that a run-off could ensue, in the Presidential petition filed at the Supreme Court.
"CEO Hussein Marjan walked into the boardroom with the final results and handed over a copy to each Commissioner. A debate ensued. Four Commissioners, Cherera, Nyang'aya, Masit and Wanderi, protested and insisted that the results should be changed in light of the National Security Council (NSAC) delegation's communication.
"Cherera suggested that the margin is not too big and could be manipulated by moving 233,211 votes from Ruto to the rejected ballots category. When my turn to speak came, I told the Commissioners that I would not be a party to a scheme to sabotage the will of the people," Guliye stated in his affidavit before the Supreme Court.
Cherera, Nyang'aya and Wanderi had resigned from the commission after President Ruto suspended them. However, they will still have to be investigated, as Judge Mucheule had announced.
Masit threw investigations in limbo after she expressed her intention to challenge the investigations in court.
"The commissioners each took the appointment. It was an individual appointment and individual oath taken and it is an individual quest for the removal of the commissioners," Muchelule said.
She also claimed, through her lawyer Donald Kipkorir, that she was threatened through a phone call by an unidentified female caller.
He further alleged that the investigation by the tribunal might be biased owing to the joint evidence on the three commissioners who resigned from their roles.
IEBC commissioner Irene Masit. /FILE
