Parliament will start considering petitions seeking to kick out four commissioners of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) who rejected the August 9 presidential election.
The fight to control the electoral commission focuses on personalities instead of pushing for its wider reform, Wafula Chebukati, the chairman of Kenya s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is due to retire on 17 January but the opposition s critiques of the organisation – and questions about the integrity of the August elections – will not end there. Electoral disputes have returned to centre-stage after allies of President William Ruto are already calling for term limits on the presidency to be abandoned given the incumbent, 55, is still a young man .
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