CORD to blame for delay in verifying Okoa Kenya signatures, says IEBC

It may take longer for the electoral commission to verify Okoa Kenya Initiative signatures.

The agency now blames CORD for failing to provide documents in soft copy.

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Chairman Issack Hassan has said feeding names and national identification numbers, of Kenyans who signed the Okoa Kenya booklets, manually is hectic.

Mr Hassan said it would have taken them a shorter period if proponents of the push had provided the data in soft copy.

“We requested the Okoa Kenya team to bring us a soft copy of the names and ID numbers of the people who have signed their booklets and they promised to do so, but the day they delivered the documents they brought about 200 booklets without soft copy,” he said.

Hassan said it would have been easy for them to run the names against its “14.3 data base and provide results within one hour.” - Moses Nyamori