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Another scandal? IEBC pressured to pay Sh1.5b

By Geoffrey Mosoku | Apr. 23, 2015

IEBC Chief Executive Officer Ezra Chiloba

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is under pressure to pay over Sh1.5 billion to a supplier who failed to deliver election kits.

Some brokers, led by a prominent MP from North Eastern and working with a cartel that has infiltrated both IEBC and Treasury, want IEBC’s Chief Executive Officer Ezra Chiloba to pay Equip Agencies Ltd for supplying Universal Polling Kits (UPK). This is even after the Auditor General established the supplier did not deliver.

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