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A decision by Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chief Executive Ezra Chiloba to pay a company that supplied voter identification devices Sh250 million above the contractual sum has returned to haunt him.
Mr Chiloba found himself in trouble with members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) after he admitted to having paid for 4,600 additional electronic voter identification devices (EVID) even after his predecessor, James Oswago, had declined to pay for the kits.
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