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By GEOFFREY MOSOKU
Nairobi, Kenya: A member of the ODM
National Elections Board has been arrested
while his colleague has gone into hiding after
the party uncovered a massive scam of minting
millions of shillings from desperate aspirants
by selling them nomination certificates.
The party uncovered the syndicate involving
members of the elections board and its
secretariat of selling nomination certificates to
aspirants.
Commissioner for Western region
Aggrey Azelwa and a staff Maxmilla Wafula
were arrested on Wednesday at Orange house
for questioning while James Ogundo, who is
in charge of Nyanza and his son Valentine
Ogundo, an IT expert, have gone into hiding
and police are looking for them.
By Wednesday evening, the two were at
Kilimani police station in Nairobi, where they
were being questioned by sleuths as the
search for Ogundo and his son intensified.
The officials were said to be selling certificates
to the highest bidder in Nyanza region, a
region where holding an ODM nomination is
equal to an election.
Sources at Orange House said the officials had
raked in millions of shillings targeting county
representatives where they were paying
between 100,000 to 200,000 shillings and
some MP aspirants who were paying between
one million to two million shillings. Some
governor and senate aspirants were also said
to be paying between the one million to two
million shillings.
The officials took advantage of the board’s
declaration that most parties of Nyanza region
did not hold polls and thus were creating their
own list from those who have paid the
millions.
Most of those who were paying the money
were from Nyanza and some parts of Western.
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