Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission commissioner Abdi Guliye has claimed that the National Security Advisory Committee had demanded that the IEBC moderate presidential results to ensure a run off at worst or a Raila Odinga victory.

This claim is contained in an affidavit that Guliye has tabled before the Supreme Court in response to the presidential petition by Raila and Martha Karua.

He claimed that the committee led by the Principal Administrate Secretary in the office of president Kennedy Kihara, Solicitor General Kennedy Ogeto, IG Hillary Mutyambai and vice Chief of Defence Forces Lieutenant General Francis Omondi Ogola had visited Chebukati at Bomas where they made the request.

He alleged that at 2pm, an hour before Chebukati declared results, Deputy Inspector General of Police Noor Gabow went to the holding room and informed him that a team from National Security Advisory Committee had arrived at the tallying centre and wanted to meet Chebukati.

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At the meeting, claimed Guliye, Kihara relayed their message that if the commission declared Ruto as president-elect ‘the country is going to burn’.

“Kihara proceeded to caution us that if we proceeded with the declaration of the results with Ruto as president-elect and chaos erupt, ‘then the blood of the dead Kenyans’ will be on our hands,” Guliye said in his affidavit.