IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati has embarked on a purge of top officials a week after former CEO Ezra Chiloba was sent packing.
The commission has written to over 25 staff allegedly implicated in questionable expenditures amounting to Sh4.6 billion during last year’s two elections.
They are required to explain their roles in the expenditures queried in a controversial internal audit ordered by Chebukati early this year.
According to a separate report by Auditor General Edward Ouko, the commission cannot account for up to Sh9.2 billion for various contracts it awarded in ten months last year.
The letters signed by acting CEO Marjan Hussein Marjan, himself an experienced auditor, has triggered apprehension that the fate of some staff associated with Chiloba is sealed.
Read: Sacked Ezra Chiloba guilty of gross misconduct, breached State laws – Chebukati
Chebukati has publicly stated that the internal audit report — which was disputed by three commissioners who quit earlier this year —has already been sent to the EACC and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions with a view to further investigating, indicting and punishing the culprits.
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