Msando’s Ghost Back to Haunt Chebukati

After the damning allegations by President William Ruto that there was an attempt to kidnap and kill former IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati, questions on justice for the late IEBC head of IT Chris Msando have come to light once again.

The allegations made by the president during the farewell event of the three departing IEBC commissioners at statehouse Nairobi on the 17th of January 2023 have opened a can of worms on unresolved cases that involved IEBC staff.

In a tweet, former Mukurweini member of parliament Kabando Wa Kabando has asked the relevant authorities to step in and solve the murders that have bedeviled the electoral commission.

“President Ruto's resolves that crooks who plotted to kidnap and kill IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati be punished deserves support. Ahead, kidnappers and murderers of IEBC's Chris Msando should be nailed. Why has Chebukati never demanded justice for Msando? Let's end impunity “read Kabando’s tweet.

Chebukati’s Tenure at the commission has been hailed by the president with a section of leaders calling out his silence on important matters that have to do with the IEBC fallen soldiers.

The leaders are questioning why the killers of Msando have never been arrested and why the outgoing chairperson Wafula Chebukati never demanded justice for the gruesome murder of Msando

The former IEBC chair could be facing the ghosts of Msando as he is accused of being silent on the matter despite having been in a position to demand justice on the same.

Gabriel Oguda has also called out the former IEBC chair, Oguda tweeted

“Chebukati says someone wanted to kidnap him and kill him before announcing the 2022 results. But Chebukati has refused to tell us who kidnapped and killed Chris Msando under his watch in 2017. The arc of the moral universe might be long, but it will finally bend towards justice “

Chris Msando was found dead on the 31st of July 2017 in Kikuyu, a week to the run-up of the August 8th general elections. Msando’s mutilated body was found alongside the body of a woman identified as Carol Ngumbu.

Msando was to oversee the public testing of the voting system, which has been vaunted by the IEBC as key to eliminating vote rigging and delivering a credible election.