Nairobi, March 15 -- The electoral agency is on the spot for the loss of critical voter registration and identification equipment at the height of the August 2022 General Election.

The National Assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) learnt that 125 biometric voter registration (BVR) kits, 952 Electronic Voter Identification (Evid) kits, and 1,325 hard disks, were stolen from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) warehouses ahead of the polls.

IEBC chief executive Marjan Hussein Marjan was put to task to explain whether the theft did not amount to interference with the elections.

The IEBC data submitted to the committee chaired by Nominated MP John Mbadi shows that 952 Evid laptops were stolen at the Kisumu ware...