IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati (second right) his deputy Consolata Nkatha Bucha Maina (left) commissioners Paul Kibiwott Kurgat and Dr Roselyn Akombe after meeting diplomats at the Bomas of Kenya on October 2, 2017. [Photo: nation.co.ke]International Centre for Policy and Conflict Executive Director Ndung’u Wainaina has castigated the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) for what he has termed as lack of 'seriousness'.Wainaina says that if the commission was serious the moment the Supreme Court indicted them for bungling the election, they would have invoked the Public Officers' Ethics Act as their internal administration decision-making and suspend all the officers who were responsible for the election."Every officer from the CEO Ezra Chiloba, who was the overall accountability officer for the election, was supposed to be sent on compulsory leave. After sending all the indicted officers on compulsory leave, the commission was then expected to open direct investigations," Wainaina writes in Thursday's Star.He notes that with the kind of ruling by the Supreme Court, there was no way the commission led by Chairman Wafula Chebukati could sit and assume nothing happened.The Directorate of Criminal Investigations, the activist says, was then supposed to move in on Chebukati's request to conduct a forensic audit of the election process to establish what happened."The commission was supposed to have introduced a bipartisan multiagency team to conduct a forensic audit. On the basis of that, the forensic audit would then be presented to the Director of Public Prosecutions for action. That is the correct procedure that we expected the IEBC to follow in finding out what, exactly, happened," Wainaina adds.

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