The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) officials have offered to voluntarily vacate office after an exit deal was agreed.
If approved, the officials will take home millions in ‘severance pay’ as they left in “public interest”.
The parliamentary committee co-chairs, Siaya Senator James Orengo and his Meru counterpart Kiraitu Murungi allegedly went beyond the law and political interest to persuade the officials to leave.
"The commissioners have scored big time. They are leaving under their terms and not ours," The Standard quoted an MP who reportedly sought anonymity.
The report by the publication says that the deal was not easy to pull through.
"The truth is that the select committee did not have any evidence to pin any of the commissioners. Instead, the committee was at their mercy. By agreeing on this negotiated pay package, they have done us a huge favour," added the quoted legislator.
The commissioners demanded full benefits for the remaining 15 months. The demands included gratuity and a 'clean' image as they left.
They also wanted a guarantee that no criminal case would be instituted against them despite the Chickengate scandal whose details are currently coming to light. The officials agreed to leave instead of facing a tribunal.
"They wanted to leave clean. Meaning no report implicating them will be adopted by Parliament. They sought assurance that the joint committee report will also exonerate them," said a close source in the team.
Earlier, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich affirmed that the contingency fund cash could be used for their settlement.
The officials also had the parliamentary team cornered as they said the process was illegal.
The payoff will go on despite an internal audit of the March 2013 elections showing that IEBC allowed the polls knowing it was using an incomplete and faulty voters’ register.
In the leaked report from the commissions’ offices, IEBC did not know the total number of voters with data indicating that some registered voters were left out of the national voters’ roll.
The report showed there was more than one final register which IEBC admits it did not ‘fully clean up’. IEBC, in the report, admitted that ‘data was lost’ being transmitted to Nairobi and they did not manage to know how it was lost.