IEBC bosses at past. [Photo|Courtesy]The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) now wants to cap legal fees for lawyers who represent it in election petitions.This is after the electoral body announced measures to cut costs, including setting the highest limit of legal fees that should be paid to external lawyers.Appearing before the Parliamentary the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee before August election, Chairman Wafula Chebukati expressed concerns over what he termed as exorbitantlegal fees charged by lawyers, in election petitions.He said the Commission would meet external lawyers and ask them to sign an agreement over how much they would earn.This came about following an audit report by Auditor General, Edward Ouko, which revealed lawyers who represented the Commission in election petitions since 2013, had pocketed Sh2 billion, a double amount of legal fees that could have been charged.

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