Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission Chairperson Eliud Wabukala and Chief Executive Officer Halakhe Waqo during a press briefing at the EACC offices.(Photo/star.co.ke)
Eleven teams deployed by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission EACC on election day have said they documented 26 incidents of alleged voter bribery.
Through a statement, the commission says that its monitoring teams encountered voter bribery incidences in several polling stations in Garissa, Meru, Busia, Wajir, Nyamira and Machakos counties.
"Seven cases were handled by police, one was referred to the Interior ministry and the commission is still pursuing two others," Chairman Eliud Wabukala said in a statement.
"The other 16 cases were pursued but remained unsubstantiated," he added.
The chairman added EACC is also following a case in which an aspirant in Mavoko, Machakos, was spotted using a state corporation vehicle at a polling station.
According to the statement, the commission also received complaints from voters on poll day on procedural irregularities which slowed down the polling exercise.
“We received a number of complaints from voters including late opening of polling stations, failure by IEBC officials to direct voters to the right streams, failure by IEBC officials at the polling stations to wear identification badges and slow re-direction of voters who were in the wrong queues.”
The commission notes that it has documented these incidents in the EACC observation report.