Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula has confirmed that he has no business ties to the Greek company contracted to print ballot papers for the general election in August.
Through a statement, Wetangula denied the claims stating the allegations as nasty and untrue.
The senator also told off the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party over the related issues.
“ODM must keep me out of their election woes and come to the reality that they are once again staring at a disastrous election outing,” Wetangula said.
ODM leaders said that the action was a part of a scheme by the Kenya Kwanza Alliance to rig the elections on August 9.
Along with the invitations to the three businessmen, Wetang’ula also requested through a letter to Antonios Sgourpoulos, the Greek ambassador to Kenya, on June 10, 2021, that Joshua Abdalla Makokha, whom he refers to as “personally known to me,” be granted a Schengen visa so that he could visit Athens, Greece.
“I have never had any business relationship with IEBC. I know nothing about ballot printing or any printing business for that matter!! I have no relationship of any kind with the person named in the story as Joshua Abdalla Makokha,” read the statement.
Wetang’ula wrote to the Greek ambassador to Kenya in June 2021, two months before the IEBC released the tender for the supply of ballot papers and other electoral materials, such as the printed voter list, statutory election result declaration forms, and election result declaration forms, requesting assistance for Makokha’s visa to visit Greece.
The senator refers to Makokha as the East African representative of the American Institute for International Policy Makers and Public Administrators in the letter she wrote to the ambassador.
However, Wetang’ula denied knowing the person in question in his reply.
“The study is a distraction from the genuine election issues, such as the battle against corruption, the high cost of living, the debt load, state control, and conflicts of interest in the management of public affairs,” he added.
The Bungoma senator said that he had given his attorneys instructions to sue the Daily Nation.
“If any letters were written on letterheads indicating they are from the Bungoma senator’s office, they must be forgeries!! I have never written such letters. I do not and I repeat, I do not know the three foreigners being referred to,” Wetang’ula said.