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Murang’a Woman Representative Sabina Chege is reportedly sick and has failed to appear before the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s Code of Conduct committee over her elections rigging claims.

According to her lawyers, Otiende Amollo and Senator James Orengo, Sabina was admitted at the Nairobi hospital on Wednesday, February 16 and is currently undergoing treatment.

This, they said on Tuesday, February 22 before the IEBC committee ahead of a scheduled full hearing following remarks she made at a political rally that insinuated that Jubilee rigged votes in the 2017 polls.

“The respondent (Woman Rep. Sabina Chege) is not in attendance today as she is indisposed and has been admitted at Nairobi Hospital since the 16th of February and is currently still undergoing treatment,” Otiende told the commission.

The lawyers, therefore, requested the commission to postpone the hearing until Sabina is discharged.

On Tuesday, February 15, IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati subjected Sabina Chege to a hearing after he dismissed the objections brought before the commission’s Electoral Code of Conduct Enforcement Committee by her lawyers.

Chebukati noted that Chege’s utterances were wrong, arguing that she broke a Code of Conduct which bounds her to reassuring voters of impartiality of the electoral commission and the secrecy of the ballot.

“The respondent herein is a member of Jubilee party and a serving Woman Rep having been elected under Jubilee. In the premises, the respondent is subject to the code of conduct and is under the duty to abide by the same,” he said.