Writes Leo Odera Omolo

SEVERAL dead people were reported to have their votes casted and their names ticked off in the voters registration as having duly voted on March 14. 2013.

These are some of the complaints lined up as evidence of the irregularities during the violence marred election by a petitioner seeking or the nullification of the election of the MP for Kasipul Joseph Oyugi Maguwanga.

The petition which is before the Homa-Bay High Court is filed by the election loser Charles Ong’ondo Were.

According to the detailed account of the allegation contained therein the petition paper, the petitioner had submitted copies of the government issued death certificates as well as the burial certificates to confirmed that the two voters whose names are featuring prominently in the petition paper had died, but the presiding officers had allowed their names to be ticked off as if they had come back from the dead and voted on March 14, 2013.

Were said, he believed that more dead people and ghost voters could have participated in the elections on the polling day. His effort in alerting the Provincial administration of these irregularities had hit the rock. The area D.C. is reported to have instructed the Location chiefs not to co-operate with those seeking the official document about the dead people within the constituency.

The death and burial certificates are being accompanied by affidavits sworn by he petitioner and the family of the decease persons as well as the local administrators.

Maguwanga had squeezed narrow victory over Were who has since moved to court seeking the nullification of the election an also recounting o the votes cast during the process.

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