WAFULA CHEBUKATI: Family Confirms Ex-IEBC Chair Critically Ill
Wafula Chebukati, former chairperson of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, is gravely ill.
The former IEBC chairman has been hospitalized in a Nairobi hospital and has been receiving treatment for about a week.
According to hospital sources, the Star’s former IEBC boss has been admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit.
“We are monitoring his situation at the ICU,” the source said. Chebukati’s ailment stays confidential.
A family source has revealed to me that former IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati has been declared ‘clinically dead,’ with most of his organs no longer functioning. The family was this morning asked to make a decision of whether to switch off the life-support machines. pic.twitter.com/8w3pb5JXI9
— Cyprian, Is Nyakundi (@C_NyaKundiH) February 17, 2025
According to close family sources, the former IEBC boss was treated at home before being transferred to the hospital when the situation became critical.
Was there a plan to assassinate Wafula Chebukati?
In 2023, President Ruto discussed the intrigues surrounding the August 9, 2022, presidential election results.
The president of state alleged that Chebukati, the chairwoman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) at the time, was the target of a murder conspiracy.
Ruto addressed on Tuesday, January 17, at a meeting with Constitutional Commissions and Independent Offices at State House Nairobi.
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The President referenced Chebukati and the results of the August elections.
In what seems like a movie script, the President claimed that there was a gang plotting to bribe, blackmail, extort, threaten, and intimidate various IEBC public officials before and after the tallying process was completed.
Chebukati served as IEBC chair for six years before retiring in January 2023.
He presided over both the 2017 and 2022 general elections.
WAFULA CHEBUKATI: Family Confirms Ex-IEBC Chair Critically Ill
