"It is unfortunate that his stand to do the right thing cost him his life. As the commission condoles the family of Mr Musyoka, we call on security agencies to speedily investigate and apprehend his killers," he said.
Chebukati expressed concern that the IEBC's critical staff who had been working at the national tallying center at Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi, had been harassed through profiling and arbitrary arrests, instilling fear to an extent some were unable to report for duty.
The commission has been in the eye of a storm since the debacle that started last Monday when the country was awaiting the announcement of the results which were being tallied at Bomas. Chaos erupted at the tallying center forcing some of the diplomats who had been invited to witness the historic moment to be evacuated to safety.
On Monday, the four commissioners addressed a press conference at Serena Hotel where they dissociated themselves with the results Chebukati was about to announce claiming he had held himself incommunicado, and operated the verification in an opaque manner.
The four further accused Chebukati of committing what they called mathematical absurdity as his aggregation exceeded 100 per cent by 0.01 per cent thereby occasioning an error of 142,000 votes which they asserted was enough votes to influence the outcome of the results.
On Tuesday Nyangaya said: "By the time Chebukati declared the final results, there were more than 20 constituencies that had not been declared, casting doubt why he was in haste to make a hurried proclamation before that was done."
Wanderi added: "We state categorically that the results of the presidential election held on August 9, 2022 and declared and announced by Wafula chebukati on August 15 belong to Chebukati himself and do not represent a declaration and announcement by IEBC."
They were however corrected by experts who pointed out that the extra votes could not have been more than 1,420. Azimio presidential candidate Raila Odinga has since rejected the results and promised to challenge them "as they were not a true reflection of the election outcome."
"The figures (on presidential outcome) announced by Chebukati are null and void and must be quashed by a court of law," Raila said.
Poll pressure
However, the President-elect, Ruto praised Chebukati as hero who had amazed Kenyans and the world for the transparent transmission of results and his resolve to uphold the law and the constitution despite a lot of pressure and intimidation.
Meanwhile, ODM Mombasa governor candidate yesterday protested the postponement of the polls claiming that this was a ploy to suppress voter turnout in Mombaa and kakamega which are Azimio strongholds.
Abdullswamad Nassir, who has expressed confidence of winning the Mombasa governor seat which had been scheduled for August 23 but have since postponed, said Mombasa is still an Azimio stronghold with most elected legislatures and MCAs.
"It is not a coincidence that there was postponement of elections in Mombasa and Kakamega counties which are both ODM strongholds. That was a ploy to cut on voters' turnout. Even if they postpone the election dates again, they can only postpone the win but cannot stop it," he said.