Nominated MP Johnson Sakaja has denied claims by the opposition that the Jubilee government is setting a stage for rigging the 2017 elections using a manual tallying system.
Talking during an interview with Citizen TV's Sunday Edition the MP insisted that Jubilee was only concerned of a possibility of the failure in the electronic transmission of election, hence their proposal of alternative use of manual transmission of election results.
"Jubilee is not asking for a manual voting system, we as Jubilee believe in the electronic system, it is the opposition who have been opposed to the electronic systems for a long period of time," he said.
"In the event, the machines fail or there is any problem, the representative of the political parties are there to see to it that there is no rigging," he added.
The vocal legislator insisted that a failed electronic transmission would deny Kenyans the right to exercise their democratic rights hence the need for an alternative voting system.
"Why would you stop Kenyans from exercising their democratic rights just because machines have failed? An administrative measure, according to the constitution cannot disfranchise the rights of any Kenyan," he said.
"A foolproof system is a system that has a back-up measure in place. There is no single country in the world that use only a fully integrated electronic system," he added.
Sakaja also blamed the former Prime Minister Raila Odinga for the purchase of the failed BVR kits in the 2013 elections saying it was his office involved in the purchase of the kits.