An assistant minister has questioned the criteria used by the IEBC to review boundaries in the country. Assistant minister for Higher Education who is also the MP for Tigania West Dr. Kilemi Mwiria told a session of the IEBC hearings held at Kinoru Stadium that the criteria used to delimit the new boundaries was unfair and disadvantageous to Meru county and Eastern Province as a whole. He said delimitation of of boundaries should be based on geographical areas and population as stipulated in the new constitution.

Mwiria reminded people in Meru to discuss the matter in a sober manner as they would continue to enjoy the same rights including land ownership irrespective of where the boundaries of the new constituencies were drawn. Residents of Igembe North accused the defunct Interim Independent Electoral Boundaries Review Commission of altering the region's census reports so as to deny them an opportunity of a new constituency.

According to Dr. James Mithika, the preliminary report of IEBC hived off parts of the existing Igembe South and Igembe North constituencies to form a new constituency -Igembe Central-on the basis of the census figures which indicates that the constituency had more people. Mithika said the IEBC preliminary report was disenfranchising at least 196,000 who were not represented in the new constituencies and wards created.

The residents proposed that the IEBC divide Igembe North and Igembe South constituencies to create a second constituency. The Igembe South MP Mithika Linturi said he would lobby other MPs to reject the IEBC final report of the boundaries commission once it is presented in Parliament. Igembe North MP Ntoitha Mithiaru said the IEBC should apply the right population quota and not area size when establishing new constituencies.