DCI Begins Probe Into Viral Voter Bribery Video at Kenyatta University

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🇰🇪 Breaking It Down

The footage, recorded on September 8 outside the university, shows two men allegedly offering students money to transfer their voter registration details to Wajir North.

Kenyatta University community leader Vincent Maina, who recorded the footage, later found himself at the centre of the investigation after the video spread online.

Five days after recording the video, Maina was summoned to DCI headquarters along Kiambu Road, where he spent nearly five hours answering questions from detectives.

📌 What You Need to Know

In the viral video, the two men claimed to be from Wajir and, after being confronted by university students led by Maina, allegedly said they had been sent by a Wajir County MP. Investigators have not independently verified the claim.

The identity of the politician allegedly behind the voter registration exercise also remains unknown, with investigators yet to establish whether any politician was involved.

Detectives are also looking into claims made in the video regarding 14 voter registration acknowledgment slips, which were shown as allegedly belonging mostly to newly admitted students.

According to the information displayed on the slips in the video, the students were allegedly registered in Bote Ward, Wajir North Constituency, with Welmura Primary School listed as their polling station. The claims have not been independently verified by this publication.

Sources familiar with the alleged arrangement claimed that students were offered between Ksh200 and Ksh1,000, with the money reportedly paid after they provided proof that they had completed the registration process.

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), however, maintained that deploying voter registration kits to universities is a standard practice and does not, by itself, indicate any wrongdoing.

📰 Source: Kenyans.co.ke

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