Political parties in members registration fraud

Standard Reporter

With less than three months to the next general elections and the deadline for party nominations fast approaching it is emerging that political parties are in a rush to attract new members actually engaged in fraud.

Under the new election rules a political party is only considered a national party if it has at least two thousand registered members in each of the 47 counties a feat that proved to be a hard task for most of the parties fielding candidates for the next elections.

Details now indicate that political parties fraudulently registered   members in a bid to gain legitimacy… what started as isolated complaints by Kenyans on social media has unearthed an ugly party registration fraud.

Many Kenyans through the social media on Thursday evening expressed shock at finding out they were registered as political party members without their consent

This raises questions such as who is responsible for this kind of fraud, who made it easy to access peoples data without their consent and what are the implications of such actions.