TNA denies listing members illegally

By Augustine Oduor

NAIROBI, KENYA: The National Alliance party has distanced itself from the fraudulent listing of party members and asked the electoral commission to investigate the claims.

The party also seemed to point a finger at the Registrar of Political Parties (RPP) saying the illegal listings may have been effected from that end.

“We are not the custodians of the list. It may have happened on their end,” said TNA chairman, Mr Johnson Sakaja.

He said the party is also concerned and shocked that permanent personalities say they have been registered under our party.

Sakaja said the party has transparent recruitment procedure and noted that they are not interested to have persons who are not willing to be party members.

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“We have conducted our registration in a genuine manner across the country. We do not have the intention or desire to have non members in our clean party members list,” he said.

“It is a criminal offence to fraudulently register anybody against their wish and so we also need answers to these questions. Independent electoral and boundaries Commission must find the source entry because our system has been penetrated,” he added.

The party said it is accountable to all its members because each has a certificate of registration.

“We ask anybody who has been registered to the party unprocedurally to write an email to us so that we can correct the anomaly,” he said.

Party nominations

Addressing the press at TNA offices on Friday, Sakaja said the party read mischief in the latest development where senior officials have reported to have been registered as party members against their wish.

He said the move is suspect, coming at a time when the party is also planning on its primaries set for January 17.

The party announced that County Elections Board are being constituted to oversee elections in the respective counties. The party’s National Elections Board shall be unveiled on Monday.

The party said that there will be no direct nominations for any candidates, as all aspirants will be subjected to secret ballot.

“Only the president and his deputy have been nominated. The rest will be picked through universal suffrage,” said Sakaja.