IEBC hires CHOPPERS to help transfer election materials and RESULTS
News 00:35
Thursday,
the 14th of February 2013 - Independent Electoral and
Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has confirmed that it has hired several police
choppers to help transfers election materials and results from remote areas on
March 4th.
This is the latest attempt by the IEBC to avoid the kind of
delays in the announcement of results that eventually became the undoing of the
now defunct Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) in 2007.
The IEBC has already demonstrated how it will use electronic
means of transferring the results from different polling stations to the tallying
centre at Bomas but the results cannot be officially released until the
official results forms are received from returning officers on the grounds.
According to IEBC Chairman Issack Hassan, that’s where the
helicopters will come in.
“We have hired some aircraft and choppers to be used in extreme situations just to ensure things go right,” he said.
Hassan also said that, despite the odds against it, the IEBC will deliver on its promise of free and fair elections;
“I know that there are many people out there who are still doubting. But I can today promise Kenyans that we are going to succeed in delivering a hitch-less election that is free and fair,” he said.
In related news, the IEBC expects to receive the first batch of ballot papers early next week.
The
Kenyan DAILY POST
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