Some of the trucks that transported the presidential ballot papers from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. [Photo/ citizentv.co.ke]
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has begun ferrying electoral material to counties in readiness for the August 8 general election.
The Commission received the last consignment of 161 pallets of presidential ballot papers for the remaining 17 counties on Tuesday at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.Kenyans will be going to polls on Tuesday to elect president, governors, senators, MPs, woman representatives and MCAs.There has been contestation from Thirdway Alliance Presidential candidate Ekuru Aukot who sparked off controversy over the printing of 1.2 million extra ballot papers terming it as a ‘recipe for a fiasco.’Ballot papers were printed by Dubai-based Al Ghurair Printing and Publishing Company.The company was controversially awarded the tender after Court dismissed NASA’s case in which former primer Raila Odinga and other opposition leaders challenged the award of the tender to Al Ghurair.The Opposition claimed the company’s leadership has links with State House.