Siaya Senator James Orengo has accused President Uhuru Kenyatta of delaying the process of recruiting new IEBC bosses.
According to the Nation, Orengo also accused Uhuru of taking time to assent to the Election Laws Amendment Bill 2016 and Election Offences Bill 2016 thus the delay in its gazettement.
“Any day lost in the preparations of the second national elections under the new Constitution is an invitation to an electoral crisis and chaos of monstrous proportions,” Orengo said as the Nation reports.
The senator claimed Monday in a statement that the Jubilee administration was using the Government Printer to frustrate changes in the new law.
“This will not be the first time that the Printer has been used to frustrate legislation through delay in the publication or by deliberately changing the wording or import of the laws. It would appear that the President has not released to the Government Printer the new legislation for publication,” added the senator.
"It is instructive that the Government Printer falls under the Office of the President," he said in a statement to newsrooms.
Orengo said the President is not keen in discussing a send off package for the commissioners which was one of the conditions for their exit.
He now wants Uhuru to convene a meeting between the National Treasury, Attorney-General and other relevant agencies to determine the send-off package for the current IEBC commissioners.
“Despite the existence of useful precedent in calculating such packages, all has stalled or has been kept in abeyance.”
He said the Isaack Hassan led team was setting up systems in readiness for the August 2017 elections, terming it a contravention of the new law.
He said the new law requires that procurement and installation of the technology to be used must be undertaken eight months before the elections.
The new technology, he added, should be tested, verified and deployed 60 days before a general election.
Senator Orengo and his Meru counterpart Kiraitu Murungi co-chaired a joint parliamentary committee that championed a negotiated process to appoint new electoral commission bosses and the exit of the Isaack Hassan-led team.