The National Super Alliance (NASA) now wants the IEBC to clean up the voters’ register in three weeks’ time and rid it of over 1 million dead voters.
The alliance’s demands come a day after a report by an audit firm, KPMG, pointed to a possibility of the register still having names of individuals who have been long dead.
Speaking in Makueni County, the opposition launched a 10-point plan for the eastern region, saying if they ascend to power in August, the area will develop economically.
Two months to the polls, campaigns seem to have reached fever pitch, with both alliances crisscrossing their strongholds to galvanize their votes.
The alliance held rallies at Mtito Andei, Kibwezi, Makindu, before converging in Wote town, the headquarters of Makueni town.
They say politics is all about numbers, and the alliance wants the IEBC to ensure they have the right enlisted numbers of voters, a day after the KPMG report.
“Chairman IEBC, wale watu milliioni moja ambao hawafai kuwa kwa register, tunakupea 21 days mtoe hao watu ambao wanapiga kura wakiwa maiti,(To the chairman IEBC, we give you 21 days to clean the register of the dead voters,” said Mutula Kilonzo Junior.
Majority of the leaders who attended the Ukambani rally called for the axing of the leaders who decamped from the Nasa parties to Jubilee and Maendeleo Chap Chap.
The opposition leader Raila Odinga accused the Jubilee goverment if corrupting the vision 2030 flagship projects that were launched by the retired president Mwai Kibaki and Odinga, who was then the Prime Minister.
He said the Konza city programme, which has stalled, was meant to improve the economy of Ukambani Region.
“Wakaweka mkono mmoja uko ukambani unaitwa Alfred Mutua, ati yeye sasa anajenga mji ya kisasa ya Machakos, ati Dubai itakuja hapa, hiyo si ni uongo, (They put Alfred Mutua as the main person here in Machakos and promised to ‘build a Dubai’, what have they achieved?”
Other leaders weighed in with views on failed agricultural promises, saying they have lost considerably.
“Sisis Wakamba tulikua tunalima pamba, alafu ikazoroteshwa. Nasa sasa ikiingia tutaanza kulima pamba upya na tutaendelea,” said Kivutha Kibwana.