Nearly 24 hours after the polls closed, Kenyans were on Tuesday still awaiting the outcome of the election for which they endured hours of waiting to participate in.
The wait, which was expected to go late into the night last evening, is one Kenyans did not expect given the assurances that the IEBC gave the electorate that it was ready for the polls .
The IEBC’s explanation for the delay was that it was experiencing challenges with the technology it had put in place to transmit the results. Yet the same agency appeared not to take seriously concerns in the run-up to the election that it needed to do more on its preparedness.
It is the former UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, who after witnessing the challenges that Ghana faced with technology in last year’s polls made a plea to Kenya to test its system to avoid similar challenges.
The IEBC may not have thought about this, but the air of apprehension that has engulfed the country in wait of the election outcome is extremely expensive.
Kenya lost the entire day on Tuesday in terms of economic productivity as the citizens sat in their homes awaiting the outcome of this election.
The IEBC owes voters, who dutifully played their part on Monday a clean and credible outcome that will enable the country to breath easy and go back to work.
