The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has revealed 11 counties whose Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) stickers were found with the three Venezuelans who were arrested at JKIA on Friday, July 22.
The counties are Nairobi, Kiambu, Nakuru, Nyeri, Meru, Machakos, Murang'a, Bomet, Tharaka Nithi, Nyandarua, and Kericho.
According to DCI, the suspects were also in possession of an unprinted roll of stickers.
All the materials recovered belonged to at least 10, 000 polling stations.
"The suspect confessed that he was given the materials from Panama by his company M/S Smartic International Holdings B.V to deliver to Abdulahi Abdi Mohammed's office in Nairobi.
"His second bag contained one personal laptop, one personal monitor, five flash discs, one mobile phone, and assorted personal computer accessories.
"When he was questioned on ownership of the same, he stated that the electronics and their accessories were his own personal items and not IEBC property," DCI said in a lengthy statement.
The statement further indicates that while they were questioning Camargo, two more foreigners; Joel Gustavo Rodriguez and Salvador Javier Suarez appeared at the airport asking for the former's whereabouts.
The duo was also in the country on an invite by Abdi and had similarly ferried in a similar contingent containing 17 rolls of IEBC stickers which passed undetected on July 15.
Upon further investigations, the DCI however say the duo was not Smartmatic employees and had traveled into the country using expired passports from Venezuela.
"During interrogation, Camargo was asked if he had any contact of anybody in the republic of Kenya and in particular IEBC however he could not give any contact other than the contact of the apartment he was booked at."
IEBC election materials delivery plan
DCI opined that this was a well-orchestrated plan by the IEBC since upon questioning of the commission's principal legal adviser Chrispine Owiye about the mode of delivery of election materials from outside the country, he said that the CEO Marjan Hussein Marjan did not sign a clause for that.
"The above averments speak of a deliberate loophole consciously left for mischief," DCI claims.
DCI says the IEBC CEO and chairman Wafula Chebukati are contradicting each other in acknowledging the trio.
"Mr Marhan Hussein Marjan categorically stated that the suspect Camargo is not an official of IEBC but an employee of Smartmatic. We find Chairperson Wafula Chebukati to be insincere and dishonest by declaring people who have been disowned by his own staff as IEBC personnel."
DCI Kinoti has now called on Chebukati to come out clear and assure Kenyans of free, fair, and credible 2022 elections.
"We are challenging Chebukati to put his house in order and walk the talk of delivering his own words free fair and credible general election.
"He should desist from intimidating and blackmailing other equally responsible players in conducting their duties by constantly misusing the media," the statement reads in conclusion.
