IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati (centre), Commissioner Roselyne Akombe and CEO Ezra Chiloba address journalists on June 14. [Photo: nation.co.ke]
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) seems to have started on the wrong footing over
This is after a fresh crisis emerged on Wednesday following the appointment of a team to manage the October 17 presidential elections provoked internal divisions within the agency and rejection by the major political players.
Some members of the commission, the Nation reports, were unhappy with the manner in which their chairman, Wafula Chebukati, went about naming the seven-member team under his supervision to manage the repeat poll.
The commissioners were reported to have complained that they did not know about the appointments and saw the announcement on the news late Tuesday.
"The chairman has named a team that he has no confidence in," Bloomberg quoted Commissioner Roselyn Akombe on Wednesday as saying.
Chebukati on the other hand pointedly said that he had appointed the team in his capacity as the constitutionally mandated Returning Officer for the presidential election.
The changes done by Chebukati without any 'consultations' with the rest of the commissioners are now open to court action.