Activist Okiya Omtatah has filed a suit to stop the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission from proceeding with the contract it awarded to audit firm KMPG.
In December last year, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission were stopped from awarding a tender to audit firm KPMG for the review of voters register after Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) had gone to court challenging the decision to award KPMG the tender which was later dismissed on its technicality.
Omtatah moved to court based on same argument as CORD’s that the contract was irregularly given and that the firm had no capacity to carry out the audit.
“The commission did not only act suspiciously in awarding the contract but has also diluted the gains made through electoral reforms in allowing a firm that has no expertise in auditing voter registers or any guarantee of their ability to clean up the register,” said Omtatah.
The move comes barely a week after Justice Enoch Chacha Mwita had dismissed a case challenging the tender award to KPMG.