Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairman Wafula Chebukati, it has emerged locked himself in office to avoid meeting IEBC commissioners who resigned after the October 26th repeat election.
The commissioners, Consolata Nkatha Maina, Margaret Mwachanya and Paul Kurgat 'resigned' on April 16th over what they termed their differences with the commission's chairman Wafula Chebukati.
The three also cited Chebukati's 'mistreatment' of IEBC Chief Executive Officer Ezra Chiloba as their reason for resigning.
On Friday, however Nkatha Maina and Mwachanya returned to Anniversary Towers where they wanted to meet Chebukati.
But IEBC Communications Director Andrew Limo told reporters that the chairman could not meet the two as he had other engagements.
Attempts by Nkatha and Mwachanya to meet the chair hit a snag as Chebukati is said to have rejected their request to meet them.
Limo told local Swahili newspaper Taifa Leo that the Chebukati who was in his office left Anniversary Towers without any notification, leaving the two commissioners waiting.
Other IEBC workers according to the local daily are said to have declined to talk to the two embattled commissioners. Kurgat was not in their company.
An IEBC official hinted to a leading local newspaper that Chebukati, before leaving Anniversary Towers had to lock himself in office to avoid the two commissioners who accuse him of mismanaging operations at the electoral body.