Majority leader of the National Assembly, Hon. Aden Duale is now blaming the religious leaders for the IEBC woes saying they were responsible for selecting the commission's chairman Wafula Chebukati and his six commissioners.
Speaking to Citizen TV on Tuesday, Duale blamed Chebukati and the religious leaders for the resignation of the three commissioners saying that the step to change the 2013 constitution to give the religious leaders the authority to appoint commissioners into the electoral body was a mistake.
“The mistake we made was when we diverted from the legal framework put in place after new constitution on the process of constituting a new IEBC commission,” he said.
“The country went out and let the religious leaders to constitute a commission, in my honest opinion, that is where we made a mistake and got the worst product, Chebukati and his team. Chebukati was fronted by religious leaders and a number of us were against it.” Duale narrated saying Chebukati and the two commissioners left should resign as well.
He concluded by saying that the recruiting team that was in place in 2013 was the best including the team that they had set into the commission.
Three commissioners, Vice-chair Connie Maina, Paul Kurgat, and Margaret Mwachanya on Monday tendered, documented and presented their resignation letters days after the commission's Chief Executive Officer Ezra Chiloba was suspended by Chebukati to allow for auditing of the commission.