IMANI Africa is demanding audit into the procurement done between 2016 and 2019 for the equipment currently abandoned amounts to some $60 million by the Electoral Commission.
“A detailed independent asset audit of the Electoral Commission to account for the 60 million dollars of equipment procured between 2016 and 2019 that it claims have suddenly gone obsolete, deep and complete reconciliation with the Opposition Parties and CSOs whose calls for accountability it has shunned so far. Failure to patch up and open up to scrutiny by all stakeholders will only deepen the rancour, including the ethnocentric tensions, that marred the integrity of the electoral process in many places.”
“A serious national dialogue about strategies to fix the identification and register cleaning issues that remain wholly unresolved due to continued neglect despite the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars of this country’s hard-earned resources over the last decade on the electoral system. Tackle the “Procurement Raj” that has taken hold of the EC and is hell-bent on milking the country at all cost through scheme after scheme,” IMANI indicated.
