IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati. [Photo/capital]
IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati has come out to clarify in regards to the controversy surrounding voter turn out in the country during the presidential repeat election.
Controversy arose when Chebukati tweeted that voter turn out was close to 6.5 million which represented 48 percent of the registered voters.
But in the IEBC portal, the results streaming in had indicated that more than 7 million voters had already voted.
Speaking on Saturday, Chebukati said that certain individuals had taken advantage to spread fake news regarding the matter.
"We urge the public to ignore the fake news doing rounds on social media about the voter turn out. Those are fake and unverified results. Actual results are announced here at Bomas which is the National Tallying Centre," he said.
Chebukati said,"It is true we had communicated that 6.5 million Kenyans had voted. This information relied on the number of KIEMS that had keyed in data which was tabulated at the said time".
He said the 48 percent turn out was arrived at by calculating the number of people identified by the KIEMS dividing it with the total number of registered people in the said polling stations.