The recruitment of the next Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has been halted.
The new development comes within a period of seven months after the process was stopped.
The Court stopped the process after it was discovered that the Chairman of the IEBC Wafula Chebukati oversaw a flouted process.
Chama cha Mawakili had filed a petition at the Employment and Labour Relations Court seeking to stop the process over the same.
The commission had shortlisted 10 candidates for the post before the court halted the process.
The new move means that the process of recruitment will not continue as processed.
The commission is expected to undertake the process afresh. According to Chama cha Mawakili, the electoral body had not consulted any human resource firm before it embarked on the process of hiring.
The lobby group said that there is a conflict of interest as far as the hiring process is concerned.
The commission was also faulted for failing to justify why some of the candidates were not shortlisted for the position.
“The increase in the number of years of experience violates Article 27 of the Constitution and is discriminatory, arbitrary, illegal, unlawful, null and void for locking out Kenyans who would have otherwise been qualified to apply for the position of CEO,” the petitioner argued, as Daily Nation.