Bungoma senator Moses Wetang’ula has hired lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi to represent him against Orange Democratic Movement party members who claim he is connected to a Greek ballot printing firm.
This comes after Suna East MP Junet Mohamed claimed he was part of a plot to rig the August 9 general election with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.
In a tweet, the senator stated that he had directed Ahmednasir to sue Junet for his remarks.
“I have instructed SC Ahmednasir aka “The Mullah” to take legal action against ODM desperadoes to stop their reckless inanity against Weta & KK. Watajua hawajui!!” Wetang’ula said.
Junet, who is also the secretary general of Azimio, claimed that IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati and senator Moses Wetang’ula convened a meeting in Karen to discuss the ballot paper tender.
Junet claimed that during the meeting, a deal was struck in which the Greek ballot printing firm Inform Lykos (Hellas) was awarded the tender to supply 200 million ballot papers.
He claimed that officials from the Greek firm came to Kenya disguised as potential investors in Bungoma County.
“When IEBC announced ballot papers tender you sent someone called Makokha Abdalla to Greece and you invited those guys from Greece to Kenya pretending to be people wanting to invest in Bungoma. They had come for a deal with you,” he said.
Wetang’ula denied any knowledge of Abdalla on Wednesday, dismissing Junet’s claims as “false and malicious.”
“I know nothing about ballot printing or any printing business for that matter!! I have no relationship of any kind with the person named in the story Joshua Abdalla Makokha,” he said in a statement to the newsroom.
However, Junet has maintained that the senator was a key player in the deal and has even challenged him in court.
He claimed that the agreement reached at the meeting involves the subtle addition of marked ballot papers through the Ugandan border to facilitate what he termed as “the Rigging plot.”
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