Kethi quizzed over stolen voter’s paper

Lawyer Kethi Kilonzo was on Tuesday interrogated by the police over allegations of theft and forgery of an electoral document.

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission reported to the police that a voter’s slip she presented when seeking nomination for the Makueni Senate seat was stolen and details fraudulently written.

Detectives at the directorate of criminal investigation showed her lawyer James Orengo, a booklet where the slip was allegedly plucked from.

Besides investigating the theft, a police officer told the Nation that detectives also suspected that Ms Kilonzo’s names and other details were written on the voter’s slip fraudulently.

Ms Kilonzo’s other lawyer, Mr Harun Ndubi, said another slip from the booklet was used to register former President Mwai Kibaki.

However, Mr Orengo told journalists that he did not expect any charges would be preferred, describing his client as “innocent,” and that they had declined to have her statement recorded.

“Basically they are saying that slips in a particular booklet were lost and the complainant is IEBC. She walked in innocent and walked out innocent. I think this will be the end of the matter,” he said.

The Nation learnt that Ms Kilonzo said she had nothing to say when questioned by the police. An officer told the Nation that the response was good enough “for the record.”

Ms Kilonzo visited the directorate’s headquarters off Kiambu Road following summons by the police.

Mr Orengo further revealed that the detectives gave them copies of documents, which they received from IEBC including a record of registers, the booklet, records from specific polling stations and a record of how documents were distributed.

The voter’s slip in question led the IEBC tribunal to invalidate her nomination to vie for the Makueni seat that fell vacant after the death of her father, Mr Mutula Kilonzo.