Ford Kenya party leader and Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula has reiterated the need for a review of the voter management process, ranging from voter education to results transmission. Wetangula was speaking when he presented Ford Kenya’s views on the BBI before the BBI steering committee in Nairobi. He noted that in the frontier and Western Counties it’s very hard to get an ID, thus locking one out of the voting registration process. He said it’s hard to operate in Kenya without an ID, whether it’s accessing government services opening a bank account, “Yet when you come to those areas to get an ID you are asked questions no ordinary person can remember,” he said. He said the executive’s interference in the voting management process should also be checked, “Of equal concern is the perceived executive interference in the voter management process, including the process of procurement of voting materials, actual voting exercise, tallying and results’ transmission.”
Wetangula urged the BBI steering committee to take charge of the whole implementation and BBI process. He cautioned that the political class shouldn’t take over and use it as a tool for their 2022 elections aspirations. “Ford Kenya calls upon the taskforce to take firm charge of the process as was the case before….the executive and political class must not be allowed to hijack this process and turn it into a political campaign and contest for the next election,” he said,adding that it should play the long-term role it was designed for and not short-term political goals, in order to solve problems that have faced Kenya.