Former commissioner of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Rosylyn Akombe has waded into the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report, warning it could be meaningless.
Akombe said without a guarantee that the country can conduct free and fair elections, it will be just a waste of time and resources writing documents in pursuit of peace and stability.
In a tweet on Sunday, she said electoral justice will only be achieved if there are mechanisms to ensure those in power do not manipulate poll results.
"And there lies our problem on electoral justice. Until we fix the incentives that make those who wield power fix the elections, we can write millions of BBI reports without a change," Akombe said.
The former IEBC staff was reacting to remarks by former Head of Civil Service Sally Kosgei who disclosed that she, alongside others who she did not mention, were in a position to rig the 2002 general election, but they chose not to.
Kosgei worked for retired President Daniel Arap Moi, who was heading to retirement and decided not to interfere with the poll in which Mwai Kibaki and Uhuru Kenyatta went head-to-head against each other.
“We could have interfered if we wanted to. We had the power and the means. Every single person in charge of instruments of power is capable of achieving that end was sitting in that meeting. We never broached the idea,” Kosgei said.
Akombe agreed with the sentiments and said: "Thank you Sally Kosgei for saying so clearly what I have been clearly unable to articulate in the past two years on elections.
Akombe resigned a few days to the October 26, 2017, repeat presidential election citing frustrations at the IEBC, which she claimed could not guarantee free and fair poll.