Former IEBC Commissioner Roselyn Akombe has remained hopeful that those responsible for Chris Msando’s death will be brought to justice.
Six years ago today, on Friday, July 28, 2017, Msando, the former IT manager of the election commission, vanished.
After four days, his body was discovered in a Kikuyu bush, next to that of a young woman, subsequently named Carol Ngumbu.
On Tuesday, Akombe reflected on her late coworker and expressed her dismay that the perpetrators and enablers of the terrible murder were still at large.
She added in a statement, “They cruelly tortured and murdered you my servant, Chris Msando, six years ago.
We honor you as a shujaa for electoral justice and good government, but we have faith that justice will be done one day. Persist in your slumber of supremacy.
After his predecessor was suspended for refusing to work with an audit agency tasked with clearing the voters’ register, Msando had only been in the position for two months before his untimely death.
Just days before the general elections scheduled for August 8, 2017, Msando was murdered, despite his assurances that the computerized voting system he had helped create could not be hacked.
The torture marks on his torso were apparent when his remains were discovered early that morning. The scrapes and scratches on his back and hands were deep.
His death by torture and suffocation was confirmed by an autopsy.
One of his hands was reportedly severed, suggesting he died in excruciating pain.
Msando was supposed to conduct public testing of the Kenya Integrated Electoral Management System (KIEMS) on the day his body was discovered.
In the 2013 election, a similar electronic system failed, forcing the identification and transfer of ballots to be done by hand.
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