IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati (c-seated) talks with other commissioners and IEBC officials in a media briefing at Bomas of Kenya, the National Tallying centre, July 8, 2017. [PHOTO/the-star.co.ke]
The DPP Keriako Tobiko has ordered the EACC and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to immediately start investigations into the illegalities and irregularities that were committed in the bungled August 8 general elections.
In a letter to EACC CEO Halakhe Waqo and DCI Director Ndegwa Muhoro, the DPP ordered for a report on the "thorough, comprehensive and expeditious" probe to be brought to him in s span of 21 days.
He said the investigations must be conducted even though in their determination the Supreme Court judges did not blame anyone over the shambolic polls.
"The fact that it did not do so does not take away the powers of the DPP under Article 157(4) of the Constitution or Section 21 of the Elections Offences Act to order such investigations in an appropriate case such as the present one," Tobiko said.