The former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Ahmed Issack Hassan must be ecstatic seeing what Raila Odinga is doing.
After discrediting the just concluded election, the opposition leader has lodged a complaint at the Supreme Court to nullify the presidential results outcome.
And as if on cue, Hassan who chaired the electoral body from November 2011 to October 2016 seems to be riding on the current standoff to release his book.
In the memoir, he details his journey at the helm of the besieged electoral body showing how politicians are hell-bent on making independent bodies suffer if they do not toe their line.
From May 2009 to November 2011, Hassan chaired the Interim Independence Electoral Commission (IIEC) before he was recommended for the IEBC by parliament.
What will make for an interesting reading is how Hassan and his seven commissioners were hounded out of office by the then Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), led by opposition leader Raila Odinga in October 2016.
This followed a violent mass action campaign.
In January this year, the new set of commissioners led by Ezra Chiloba and Wafula Chebukati took over and in his forthcoming memoirs, Hassan recalls how the IEBC has been reduced to a scapegoat by a repeat-loser in the Presidential election and his surrogates.
Raila has disputed every election outcome since 1992 except once in 2002 when he declared ‘Kibaki Tosha’.
Hassan’s book will definitely be peeling back the mask of the happenings at the IEBC and also showing how politicians will always pull their way with selfish demands to keep them relevant.
In an introduction published by the Star, Hassan lays the foundation by giving a background of the evolution of the IEBC and how one man has made it his purpose to keep mutating it every five years. The IEBC commissioners were compensated handsomely after they were ejected from office.