The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has defended itself over accusations that they have many dead voters still in the voters register.
Answering questions on Thursday, the commission sought to explain why it reduced the figure of dead people flagged by the auditing company KPMG to 88,602.
“The figure of about 92,000 reduced by 3,765 after we realised that some of those listed as dead were actually people who are still alive who had gone to report their loved ones as dead but were erroneously listed as the ones who had died,” IEBC commissioner Roselyne Akombe told journalists on Thursday.
Questions have been raised on the existence of dead voters in the register, with the opposition alliance, NASA, accusing the commission of having erroneous data.
“As a country, our record of dead people is very poor and there is a need to empower the Civil Registration Services (CRS) so that we enhance its capacity of keeping records,” said Mr Chebukati.
Chebukati further promised Kenyans that the commission will deliver credible elections come August, saying ‘they cannot stop people from dying’.
“People die every day. There are some that will even die on August 7, just hours to the elections,” he said.
“We really cannot have a register completely rid of dead voters. But I am 100 per cent confident that the technology will work and no dead voter will vote because they have no bio-metrics”.