Chebukati Urges Media Houses To Speed Up In Reporting Results

Mainstream media houses and many digital media houses in the country have been providing provisional presidential results to members of the public

Marvin Chege Marvin Chege
Aug 10, 2022 - 15:10 Updated: Aug 10, 2022 - 15:39
0
Chebukati Urges Media Houses To Speed Up In Reporting Results
IEBC chairman, Wafula Chebukati, during a past media briefing. /TWITTER

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman, Wafula Chebukati, has urged media houses to be more rapid in tallying the presidential results to relay to the electorate.

Mainstream media houses and many digital media houses in the country have been providing provisional presidential results to members of the public, though some media houses have been reporting numbers different from each other.

This has caused anxiety among Kenyans, given the discrepancies the different numbers have caused. Moreover, some of them have Azimio la Umoja's Raila Odinga ahead of Deputy President William Ruto of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) while others have vice versa.

A live screenshot of Form 34B results. /IEBC

Chebukati noted that the media should not be hesitant in tallying the results given the ones being uploaded on the IEBC portal from the polling station were final.

"The media is behind in their tallying, they should have been at 98 per cent now. Maybe they were not prepared," he joked.

The commission's portal indicated that by the time of publication, 45,418 of 46,229 reported form 34As were on the platform, which is a 98.25 per cent completion.

Chebukati also noted that the final results will be declared when all the forms are submitted on the portal, which is available for Kenyans to access.

The commission had opened its official platform shortly after it had closed voting across all polling centres in the country at 5 pm, with a few exceptions for polling stations which witnessed delays during the process.

The platform features 48 counties; that is 47 in Kenya and the lone county being the diaspora. This is despite less than 5,000 Kenyans living abroad voting in the last election.

To access the platform, visit this link: IEBC - Forms portal

The portal has all the counties arranged in alphabetic order, starting with Baringo County and concluding with West Pokot.

It also shows a live representation of votes counted per county against the registered voters as well as the live update of the reported forms 34A.

Those interested in following the results specifically can access a specific county, then a constituency, then the polling station and the stream in which they voted in.

Also available on the platform is the Form 34Bs which show results from the various constituencies.

Residents queue to cast their votes at the Kenyatta Sports Ground polling station in Kisumu County. /DAILY NATION