The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has threatened to scuttle attempt to enact a law in the senate to glide replacement of commissioners in the national poll agency.

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The Senate is next week expected to speed up the process of coming up with a law to replace the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) who resigned last year.

But the ODM side has threatened to reject the bill, demanding the whole disbandment of the commission as the Building Bridges BBI (BBI) push, which might need a referendum,  beckons.

Speaking on Thursday, minority leader James Orengo said that no reforms will have been done with chair Wafula Chebukati and Commissioners Boya Molu and Abdi Guliye still office.

"We in ODM believe that there are no positive reforms that can be expected from the IEBC with the team of Chebukati still in office. We must start afresh, and this must entail bringing in new faces, new structures and laws governing their operations,” the Siaya Senator said.

His remarks were echoed by ODM party Secretary General Edwin Sifuna.

Already, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Bill has been passed by the National Assembly, and is set to be tabled before the Senate Justice and Legal Affairs Committee on Tuesday next week.

 “The report (on the Bill) is almost complete. We hope that it will be done by Monday next week so that I can lay it before the House on Tuesday,” the committee chair Samson Cherargei, also the Nandi Senator, told the paper.

The commission is currently operating with only three commissioners, after the resignation of Roslyn Akombe, Consolata Nkatha, Margaret Mwachanya, and Paul Kurgat.

The commission also lacks a substantive Chief Executive Officer after the sacking of Ezra Chiloba.

A few days ago, Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi, while on an interview with Citizen television, called for the restructuring of the commission. 

To him, the commission had proven beyond doubt that it cannot leave up to the expectations of Kenyans, after the Kibra by-election which he felt was not free and fair.