Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has said that the opposition is ready to withdraw a case challenging the award of IEBC voters’ register audit contract to KPMG.
Speaking on Thursday after holding National Executive Committee meeting at the Lavington offices, Kalonzo said that they have already informed the chairman of IEBC Mr Chebukati that they are willing to drop the case.
“We have told Mr Chebukati that we are ready to put our case away. Because these cases do not help anyone. But we must meet as stakeholders with the most urgent necessity to clear these things out,” said Mr Musyoka as quoted by Nation.
This comes after Makueni County Senator Mutula Kilonzo Junior urged to pursue an alternative way in address the issue as the mass voter registration exercise goes on in different parts of the nation.
“I am asking the Cord coalition to find a method even if it is withdrawing the case that is in the court so that we can find a method of auditing this register as soon as possible,” he said, as quoted by CitizenTV.
Mutula had argued that this could not be an issue on the ground had the ruling party agreed to use electronic voter identification method as opposed to manual. “This crisis would not be there if the country had agreed to use technology as a method of identifying persons and as a method of registering persons,” he added.