The NRM Electoral Commission has set up a team of seventeen lawyers and five academic experts to scrutinize all papers for NRM parliamentary aspirants before nominations for primaries kick off. Party EC chairman Tanga Odoi says the team will also receive complaints against all aspirants whose papers are challenged.
Addressing the media at NRM Electoral Commission offices, Odoi said that so far, 22 complaints have been brought to the commission in which some people are accusing some of the aspirants of having fake academic papers while others do not have A level documents. He adds that the same EC has received four complaints pinning for aspirants having failed to resign their offices in government before picking forms for expression of interest. He said that these people if found that they didn’t resign, are not going to be nominated because they violated the law.
The exercise for returning the forms ends on 20th August after which the aspirants will bring back their nomination forms that they have been given to go and collect 20 signatures each.