{"id":1270161,"date":"2022-12-23T04:14:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T04:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/23\/cherera-four-tribunal-told-tuju-visited-iebc-commissioners-in-hotel-room\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T04:14:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T04:14:02","slug":"cherera-four-tribunal-told-tuju-visited-iebc-commissioners-in-hotel-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/23\/cherera-four-tribunal-told-tuju-visited-iebc-commissioners-in-hotel-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherera Four: Tribunal Told Tuju Visited IEBC Commissioners in Hotel Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-262181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tuju.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"571\"\/><\/noscript>On Thursday, the Justice Aggrey Muchelule-led tribunal heard from a representative of Yaya Apartments, where the infamous IEBC commissioners jointly referred to as \u201cCherera Four\u201d operated from when they disputed the presidential election results in August.<\/p>\n<p>The accommodations manager at Yaya apartments in Kilimani, Simon Miller, confirmed that the four commissioners \u2013\u00a0 Juliana Cherera, Irene Masit, Justus Nyang\u2019aya and Francis Wanderi \u2013 were booked into the premise between dates August 15 and 19 and stayed in rooms 21, 23 and 27 together with their security detail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commissioners checked in on the 15th at night and checked out on the afternoon of the 19th. On arrival, two of the lady commissioners stayed in room 21 and two of the gentlemen stayed in room 23 and then security stayed in 27,\u201d Miller told the tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>He testified that the Cherera Four did not issue their personal documents to key in the accommodation details and also did not personally sign the log books.<\/p>\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<p>\u201cWe insisted on getting documents and we were promised to get them the next day,\u201d said Miller.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<p>\u201cThe commissioners did not sign the booking but their security details are the ones who signed. We had asked two of them to sign the documents on behalf of the rest and did not want to spend much time at the reception. Two payments were done via M-Pesa and one in cash by Edwin Ogwe.\u201d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285834\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"349\" data-lazy-=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cherera4.jpg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cherera4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"349\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<p>Miller further disclosed that while the commissioners were staying in the hotel, prominent leaders allied to the Azimio la Umoja coalition paid them a visit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<p>Citing records from the visitor\u2019s logs, Miller said Azimio\u2019s Executive Director Raphael Tuju visited room 21 accompanied by his security personnel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHon Tuju was seen in the visitor\u2019s record and vehicle movements logs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_286155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286155\" style=\"width: 865px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-286155 size-full\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"527\" data-lazy-=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/miller.jpg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-286155 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/miller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"527\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-286155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yaya Apartments Accommodations Manager Simon Miller during his submissions before the tribunal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<p>Kanu Secretary General Nick Salat also visited room 21 on August 18, the Tribunal heard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<p>Miller added that one Samuel Onyango visited room 21 on August 16 and one George Mungare Kigoro visited the same room on August 18.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<div data-v-0c05764f=\"\">\n<p>Mr Miller also pointed out that a number of the hotel\u2019s employees who might have possibly seen the commissioners during their three-day stay are no longer working at the premise.<\/p>\n<p>The four suspended IEBC commissioners are accused of conspiring with senior members of the Azimio Coalition team to overturn the will of the Kenyan people in regard to the August 9, 2022 presidential election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, the Justice Aggrey Muchelule-led tribunal heard from a representative of Yaya Apartments, where the infamous IEBC commissioners jointly referred to as \u201cCherera Four\u201d operated from when they disputed the presidential election results in August. The accommodations manager at Yaya apartments in Kilimani, Simon Miller, confirmed that the four commissioners \u2013\u00a0 Juliana Cherera, Irene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1270162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}