New IEBC commissioners will assume office by the end of September 2016, Jubilee and Cord have agreed.
The Joint Select Committee of Parliament on Tuesday evening agreed to send the current Issack Hassan led team home to pave way for electoral reforms.
The commissioners affected are chairman Hassan, vice chair Lilian Mahiri-Zaja, CEO Ezra Chiloba, Abdullahi Sharawe, Thomas Letangule, Mohammed Alawi, Albert Bwire, Kule Godana and Yusuf Nzibo.
The Committee also agreed to reduce the number of IEBC commissioners to seven, from the current nine.
Four of the seven commissioners will be nominated by the Parliamentary Service Commission while the rest will be nominated by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops, Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (Supkem), the Hindu Council and the Evangelical Alliance of Kenyan Bishops.
They will serve on a full-term basis.
“We had ten points that we came here to iron out and we finally agreed on the sticky issues today including the sending home of the current IEBC Commissioners,” said the Co-Chair the Joint Committee on IEBC, Senator Kiraitu Murungi.
The Committee also agreed the voters register be cleaned and Kenyans vote electronically in a bid to ensure the process remains free and fair.