Roselyn Akombe, a former IEBC commissioner, expressed hope that Chris Msando’s murder would result in justice.
After the contested 2017 election results, Akombe fled the country covertly for the US while claiming that her life was in danger. She asserted that IEBC insiders gave Msando to his assassins.
“Five years since you were handed to the brutal killers to thwart efforts of delivering a credible election in Kenya. Though your betrayers have been rewarded and electoral integrity remains in peril, JUSTICE will be served, no matter how long it takes,” Akombe said.
Msando, vanished on this day, Friday, July 28, 2017, exactly five years ago.
Four days later, his body was discovered in a Kikuyu thicket alongside the remains of a young woman later identified as Carol Ngumbu.
He had only been in the position for two months when his predecessor was fired for failing to work with the audit company hired to purge the voter list.
Days before the elections on August 8, 2017, which he was confident would not be rigged because the electronic voting system he helped create could not be hacked, Msando was murdered.
When Msando’s remains were discovered half-naked in the early morning, his body clearly showed signs of torture. On his hand and back, he had severe cuts and scratches.
The commission’s top priority, according to Wafula Chebukati, chair of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, was to determine who killed Msando.
However, despite Chebukati’s comments about the need to identify the killers of the IT expert, the murder is still unsolved.
