Karua testifies in case against Governor Anne Waiguru

Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua addressing the press over Kajiado land injustices. [Photo by Munene Kamau/Standard]

Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua yesterday told the court that Kirinyaga governor elections were marred by massive irregularities and illegalities.

Ms Karua was testifying at the start of a petition against Ann Waiguru, who won the August 8 2017 poll.

The former presidential candidate told High Court Judge Lucy Gitari that 188 of her agents were barred from accessing polling stations to witness the voting and counting process.

She claimed after casting her vote in the company of her running mate, Gachoki Gitari at Mugumo Primary School at 6.15am, she started receiving phone calls that an agent at Kimunye Primary School had been denied access to the polling station.

“I rushed to the station and demanded an audience with the presiding officer on why he had excluded my agent yet she had an accreditation letter from Narc-Kenya party and she was eventually allowed in,”she told the court.

The petitioner claimed the areas which were massively affected by voter bribery included Mwea Constituency where claims of voter bribery emerged.

Karua took to the witness box yesterday to testify against the election of Waiguru who won on a Jubilee Party ticket.

She alleged Waiguru's chief campaigner was caught red-handed bribing voters.

Karua,who was being led in her testimony by her lawyer Njuru Kihara, told the court that her agent at the Wan'guru Girls Secondary School caught a presiding officer breaking ballot box seals.