IEBC officials in the August election queue for meals at the Kwa Njenga Primary School, Embakasi South Constituency during training. [Photo: VashMedia]
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has indicated that it will hire temporary staff to help conduct the fresh October 17 presidential election.
The chairman, Wafula Chebukati, said 40,883 presiding officers, 40,883 deputy presiding officers, 135,038 clerks, 580 ICT support staff and 290 constituency logistics assistants will be hired to conduct the election.
He further noted almost all of them would be picked from a list of staff who temporarily conducted the August 8 general election before the Supreme Court annulled the presidential election.
“The officers shall be drawn from our existing database of applicants, excluding those that may have committed irregularities during the August 8 election," Chebukati said in a statement on Friday.
The temporary staff in the August election included six polling clerks at every polling station, under the supervision of presiding and deputy presiding officers.