IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati at a past event. [Photo/ softkenya.com]
A human rights lobby group in the country now wants the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Wafula Chebukati to resign.The NGO argued that if Chebukati resigns, he will restore Kenyans’ trust in the commission which the lobby claims was lost after the bungled August 8 general election.Addressing journalists during the ongoing International Commission for Jurists conference at Serena hotel in Mombasa on Wednesday, Kenya Human Rights Commission executive director George Kegoro accused Chebukati and the IEBC secretariat of failing Kenyans.He argued that the best thing Chebukati can do is to leave the commission and pave way for a better one to be reconstituted.“What we are waiting for as rights groups is to hear Chebukati saying that I have resigned. We will count that as a major step in uniting the country,” he added.Kegoro accused Chebukati of being incompetence and partial and vowed not to relent until major reforms in the electoral body are realised.“A big percentage of Kenyans no longer trusts the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), we only need a clean-up,” he noted.However, speaking during the same event, Chebukati said IEBC struggled to ensure the August 8 and October 26 elections were free, just and fair.“He (Kegoro) is entitled to his opinion since that does not reflect Kenyans opinion towards the electoral body,” said Chebukati.