Four people have been arrested in connection to the murder of IEBC returning officer Daniel Musyoka.
Musyoka was serving as the returning officer at Embakasi East Constituency when he disappeared on election day.
He was later discovered dead Monday, August 15, in Kajiado County.
Police are reported to have tracked down the cell phone of the deceased to Kisii where it had been allegedly sold to a woman.
Three of the suspects repair phones in Nairobi.
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The suspect arrested in Kisii led a detective from Nairobi to the seller of the phone. The suspect told police he collected the phone at Mombasa road three days after the suspect went missing but he did not know it belonged to the three.
Musyoka was laid to rest on August 27.
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Wafula Chebukati during his burial demanded a comprehensive statement of the state of investigations into the commission’s staff murders.
Chebukati hit back at the rate at which the staff were being assaulted, attacked, intimidated and killed.
He said it was a sad tragedy that in every election year, after five months, IEBC staff had to be killed.
“Why must an IEBC officer be murdered after every five years? Our crime is only performing our constitutional duty. Five years ago we lost ICT manager Chris Musando while two weeks ago Daniel Musyoka was murdered,” Chebukati said.
“Their crime was serving the nation diligently and honestly. We cannot continue like this, we cannot keep making working for IEBC a death sentence. A place where honest professionals are persecuted.”
The chairman said their work was to prepare a register of voters, not a register of murdered staff members.
“Our job is to prepare for polls, not to prepare graves of our murdered staff,” he said.
Chebukati said it beats logic that with the sophisticated technology the investigating agencies had, they have not been able to resolve these mysterious murders.
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