IEBC WATCH

A Civic watchdog safeguarding Kenya's Electoral Process

[IEBC WATCH @Iebcwatch]

We launch IEBC WATCH today.
A non-partisan civic watchdog dedicated to protecting Kenya’s elections from secrecy, manipulation and silent contracts.

We will expose every risk, track every procurement, analyse every system and demand full transparency from IEBC — all the way to 2027.

No ghost stations.
No secret servers.
No proprietary black boxes.
No manipulation in silence.

Kenyans deserve elections that are free, fair, verifiable and fully auditable.

Follow IEBC WATCH —
Because democracy dies in darkness.
@citizentvkenya,@OliverMathenge
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@sholard_mancity The idea is mischievous. Reject

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@IEBCKenya @EEEthekon TRANSPARENCY ALERT

The debate should NOT be about ending live election result publication.

The real question is:

How do we make Kenya's elections MORE transparent, not less?

Since elections are conducted at the polling station, IEBC should strengthen—not weaken—public access to election data by publishing in real time:

✅ Polling station results (Forms 34A/35A/36A etc.) ✅ Timestamp of transmission ✅ Polling station code & constituency ✅ Scanned declaration forms ✅ Progress of reporting nationwide

In addition, IEBC should publish a monthly voter register dashboard showing:

• National totals • County totals • Constituency totals • Ward totals • New registrations • Transfers • Removals

Transparency is the strongest antidote to suspicion.

The solution to misinformation is more verified information—not less information.

#IEBCWatch #ElectionIntegrity #OpenElections #Kenya2027 #Transparency

"Watching every process. Protecting every vote." 🇰🇪

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@rigathi

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

Gachagua and Ruto need to stop taking Kenyans for a ride. Let’s talk about BATUK…

Gachagua now claims Ruto’s administration demanded a KSh 3 billion bribe to allow BATUK to conduct its military training in Kenya this year. If that allegation is true, then maybe it starts to answer some of the questions Kenyans have been asking for years because, BATUK’s presence in this country has been controversial for years. We’ve heard concerns about environmental damage, unexploded ordnance left behind after training, damaged roads, allegations of misconduct involving some personnel, unresolved court cases, and communities that have spent years demanding accountability and compensation. Yet through all that, BATUK has remained. So if it’s true that a KSh 3 billion bribe was demanded just to allow this year’s training, then it’s only natural for Kenyans to ask whether this is part of the reason so many of these concerns have never been adequately addressed.

But Gachagua also lost me when he said Nanyuki’s growth is courtesy of BATUK.

First things first, we need to stop this slave mentality that makes us believe our prosperity depends on foreign military bases. BATUK sits on hundreds of acres of Kenyan land worth billions. Imagine if that land was put to work directly for Kenyans through agriculture, industry, housing, research or other productive investments that create opportunities for our own people. Why are we being conditioned to believe that our development depends on hosting a foreign army?

And let’s also be clear, BATUK is not leaving Kenya. They are simply not conducting their military training here this year. Their base is still here.

So instead of turning this into another Ruto vs Gachagua political circus, let’s finally have the conversation Kenyans have been trying to have for years. Does this arrangement still serve Kenya’s interests? Have the benefits genuinely outweighed the environmental, social and legal concerns that communities have continued to raise? And is this really the best use of hundreds of acres of valuable Kenyan land?

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

What makes a population of over 50 Million people normalize dysfunction from a few politicians? Is it fear, conditioning, survival, or something else entirely?

Who actually understands this, psychologists, sociologists, historians, anyone?? Feel free to weigh in✌🏾

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@skmusyoka @edwinsifuna @rigathi @RealMatiangi @MarthaKarua @HonJBMuturi @orengo_james
All must NOT loose focus of what is being planned by @IEBCKenya .
As citizens we must persuasively be told the reasons for any anticipated plans. We don't want an info blackout that ends up with some toxic results announcement.
@Paul_Muite @TonyGachok15769

[DR MORGANS @DrMorgans01]

If this video pops up on your TL - Retweet and continue exposing the Museveni regime

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@Rothmus Nonsense shut up you white supremacist. Nkt

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> IEBC Watch will soon publish a procurement and voter-register update every Month.
Transparency is not optional — it is constitutional.

Article 10: Public participation
Article 81: Free & fair elections
Article 86: Transparent, verifiable systems

@citizentvkenya @NationAfrica @ahmednasirlaw @MigunaMiguna @OleItumbi @IEBCKenya @EEEthekon

[IEBC WATCH @Iebcwatch]

> IEBC’s announcement on “legal reforms” and “procurement talks with Treasury” raises more questions than answers. Election laws cannot be rewritten quietly, and multibillion-shilling procurement cannot begin without public disclosure.

Kenya needs:
1️⃣ A published 2027 procurement roadmap
2️⃣ Clear technology tender timelines
3️⃣ Transparent mass voter registration plans
4️⃣ Monthly updates on register changes

Democracy demands openness — not backroom arrangements.

#IEBCWatch

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Many Ugandans were angry about my earlier post and that is why I want to raise the same questions again in a calmer and more deliberate way so that we can have a meaningful conversation.

We see the excitement that surrounds Bobi Wine and we see the massive crowds and the passionate support and the belief that change is possible, yet every election ends in a loss and this constant contradiction forces any honest observer to ask what exactly is happening between the enthusiasm of the campaign trail and the final announcement of results.

There is a concept known as controlled opposition where a government allows you to campaign and address rallies and appear completely free while maintaining absolute control over the part of the process that truly matters which is the counting and the certification of results and at the same time the system ensures that anyone who demands real reforms or a new constitutional framework is immediately pushed to the margins.

This is why the question keeps returning because the patterns never change and the outcomes never shift.

So Ugandans must help me understand why Bobi Wine continues to invest so much energy in campaigns when everyone can see that the decisive moment is controlled elsewhere and the final outcome rarely reflects the public mood.

Tundu Lissu this year declared that there would be no elections without reforms and he was instantly met with the most severe accusations which shows how regimes react when someone steps outside the script they prefer to manage.

Ugandans who have been trolling me must therefore help me see evidence that can genuinely remove the doubt that Bobi Wine might be functioning inside boundaries that have already been drawn for him by the state, because I am willing to learn and I am open to new information and my intention is not to attack anyone but to seek clarity from people who understand the situation more deeply.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

If such enthusiastic people can attend your rallies but you lose the elections without calling for constitutional changes all the time then it means you are controlled opposition used to justify “democracy”.

[David Maraga @dkmaraga]

Kenya Is Not on the Road to Singapore. Pretending Otherwise Is Dangerous

[Kyle Spencer @kyleville]

This US/KE deal represents a major increase in US mass surveillance capabilities.

It will allow the US to see the name and location of everyone who uses a Kenyan healthcare facility in realtime -- and get a copy of their biometrics.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Meta’s Suspension of Tanzanian Activists Cannot Be Explained Away

I take this moment to strongly condemn Meta for suspending the accounts of Tanzanian activists at a time when every informed observer knows that media freedom in Tanzania has been completely suffocated and that digital platforms have become the only remaining space through which Tanzanians and the rest of the world can understand what has been unfolding.

Meta and its founder Mark Zuckerberg do not operate in a vacuum and they cannot expect anyone to accept any vague or convenient excuse offered to justify such bans at the very moment when truth telling is most needed.

The timing alone raises questions that cannot be dismissed and anyone who follows global politics can see how familiar this pattern is. Meta has a long history of working in ways that end up suppressing vulnerable voices whenever authoritarian governments are under pressure. No explanation can wash away the fundamental question of why such action is being taken now.

It is because of these activists that the world has been able to see the atrocities committed by the Tanzanian administration and it is through their persistence that major institutions such as the European Union have taken real action against the regime. Meta cannot pretend that it is detached from the consequences of its decisions. This is censorship in its purest form and it is happening at the expense of people who are already facing overwhelming danger and intimidation.

These activists are the same people whose reports pushed the United States Foreign Affairs Committee to call for an independent investigation into the killings in Tanzania. Meta cannot pretend that it does not understand the gravity of the situation. By removing these accounts, Meta undermines a crucial channel of evidence at a moment when accountability is being demanded globally.

Meta must therefore offer a serious and credible explanation for why accounts belonging to Tanzanian activists are being erased. Anything less would point to a company that has chosen to align itself with a government accused of mass violence rather than stand with victims who have risked everything to inform the world. If Meta has taken sides, then it should be honest about it instead of hiding behind excuses that no one can reasonably believe.

cc @AllumBokhari @BreitbartNews @LucasNolan @finkd @Meta @MariaSTsehai

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

They take their wives and children to Aga Khan’s Princess Zahra Pavilion, The Nairobi Hospital North Wing, MP Shah’s VIP Suites, Gertrude’s Pediatric “platinum” floors, Karen Hospital’s executive wing, and Mater’s private annex ; hospitals where one night costs more than what most Kenyans earn in six months.

Meanwhile, the very people who employ them, the sovereign citizens of this country, are left to line up at Nyalgunga Dispensary where a doctor was last seen in 2006, and where paracetamol is rationed like contraband.

This is the Kenyan state stripped bare:
Five-star healthcare for the rulers, survival-mode improvisation for the ruled. How do leaders who swear oaths to serve the public justify living in medical comfort that rivals Dubai, while their own citizens are forced to travel 40km for an injection?
How do they celebrate SHA as a “revolution” while ensuring their own families never step foot in the facilities they impose on everyone else?
How do they justify building VIP treatment into their insurance packages while public hospitals run out of syringes?

[Morara Kebaso @MoraraKebaso]

As youths of Kenya we have a responsibility to organize ourselves politically. If we don’t, these voters will determine our lives. They will determine the quality of our healthcare and the economy.

[Crystal Asige @CrystalAsige]

Of all by-election stories, Jeazmen Linda Aoko’s gives me life. At just 26, she decided to step into the Kasipul race as the only woman, and ran independently.

When you really think about it, hers isn’t a loss — it’s a starting point. It’s the kind of courage that very few people her age would even dream of. I’m genuinely proud of her.

If anyone knows her, mwambie ana missed call hapa because I want to take her out to lunch. #VIP

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

I thought SHA was the “revolutionary” solution we were all told to embrace? Or is it that SHA is only good for teachers, police officers, and ordinary public servants but suddenly becomes insufficient when it comes to the precious hides of MPs?

How special are they, exactly?

Every time it's the public, the government shoves SHA down their throats. But when it’s MPs, suddenly they rediscover the efficiency of private insurance, comprehensive packages, and VIP care. So SHA works just not for the elite. It’s the usual hypocrisy: one healthcare system for the ruled, another for the rulers.

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IEBC Watch will continue monitoring every by-election and national process. Silence is not protection-it is permission.

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Why IEBC Silence Is Dangerous

1/
Voter bribery, intimidation and violence were reported in the Mbeere North and Malava by-elections.
Yet IEBC issued no public statement, no condemnation, no action plan.
Silence in such moments is not neutral — it is dangerous.
#IEBCWatch
2/
When the electoral body witnesses illegality and says nothing, it sends a message to political actors:
“You can break the law, and nothing will happen.”
This encourages repeat offences, especially heading into 2027.
3/
Bribery and intimidation are not minor irregularities.
They directly undermine:
✔ freedom of choice
✔ secrecy of the vote
✔ voter confidence
✔ legitimacy of the outcome
IEBC’s mandate is to protect these principles, not ignore violations.

4/
Violence at polling centres is treated as “normal” in Kenya because no one is ever held accountable.
IEBC’s silence fuels a culture where thuggery becomes a political strategy — especially in close races.

5/
The law is clear:
The Elections Act requires IEBC to:
✔ ensure security of voters
✔ report electoral offences
✔ escalate cases for prosecution
✔ preserve the integrity of the vote
Failing to do so is dereliction of duty.
6/
If IEBC remains quiet in by-elections, what will happen in 2027?
Silence now = violence, bribery and chaos later.
This is how manipulation grows: small ignored issues become national crises.
7/
IEBC must:
1️⃣ Issue a public statement
2️⃣ Confirm investigations
3️⃣ Provide enforcement details
4️⃣ Outline prevention measures
Kenyans deserve a Commission that speaks, acts and protects the credibility of our elections.
No silence. No excuses. No complicity.

#IEBCWatch #ElectoralIntegrityKE