Akombe mourns slain Chri Msando on his 5th anniversary

Roselyn Akombe, a former IEBC commissioner, expressed hope that justice will be done in Chris Msando’s slaying.

On Friday, July 28, 2017, Msando—the former IT manager for the electoral commission—went missing.

Four days later, in a Kikuyu bush, his body was discovered with the remains of a young woman eventually identified as Carol Ngumbu.

He had barely been in the position for two months when his predecessor was fired for refusing to help an audit company that was in charge of purging the voter database.

Msando was assassinated just days before the general elections on August 8, 2017, which he had expressed confidence would not be rigged since the electronic voting system he had helped create could not be manipulated.

“Five years since you were handed to the brutal killers to thwart efforts of delivering a credible election in Kenya. Though your betrayers have been rewarded and electoral integrity remains in peril, JUSTICE will be served, no matter how long it takes,” Akombe said on Msando’s 5th anniversary.

After the contested 2017 election results, Akombe fled the nation covertly for the US while alleging that her life was in danger.

She asserted that IEBC insiders gave Msando to his assassins. Since then, she has remained in exile.

The commission’s primary objective, according to Wafula Chebukati, chair of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, was to determine who killed Msando.

“In our mind as a commission, the only issue is who killed him and why, and that is the question that must be answered.”