The government has been challenged to emulate Cord by selecting a special negotiation team that will help resolve the IEBC stalemate.
Cord has named a five-member team led by Senators James Orengo (Siaya) and Johnstone Muthama (Machakos) with the hope that government will succumb to pressure and appoint its representatives to join them to jump-start the negotiations.
And now Nyamira woman representative Mrs Alice Chae has hailed the opposition and challenged the government to select it’s team for the talks.
“Calmness is very essential when it comes to a national crisis and as politicians, we should be part of problem solving and not inciting our supporters,” posted Chae on her Facebook page.
“What the opposition has done is welcome because we are a major player in the forthcoming elections and someone cannot expect us to go to the polls with a commission we don’t trust. The government also has a responsibility to yield to those genuine demands and constitute a negotiation team,” she added.
Mrs Chae defended the opposition’s move to constitute the committee saying ‘critical’ issues required critical approach and not necessarily within the confines of the law.
“It’s not that we don’t understand the law. The other day the EACC was chased away from office just because the President thought it was derailing the fight against corruption and the case isn’t different from the electoral body. Sometimes, critical issues require a critical approach and this isn’t different,” she said.