An Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission official uses KIEMs kit to identify a voter during Kisumu North Ward by-election at Mkendwa Muslim Primary School on December 15, 2020.
The move by the electoral agency to reduce its budget to verify BBI referendum drive signatures by Sh150 million has re-ignited a push by the Raila Odinga-led ODM to slash the cost of the planned referendum, which the commission has placed at Sh14 billion.
While the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) had quoted Sh241 million to verify the 4.4 million signatures submitted by the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) team, a push by Treasury saw this come down to Sh93 million, a reduction the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) says can be replicated in the plebiscite budget.
