The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has warned that its operations could be crippled unless treasury allocates it at least 31 billion shillings to run the next general election. The IEBC brought before parliament's legal affairs committee a budget revised downwards by close to ten billion shillings, but the committee insisted that the maximum amount of money it could access for purposes of conducting the election was 23 billion shillings. IEBC chairman ahmed Issack Hassan and acting chief electoral officer James Oswago claim the bulk of the funds will go towards fresh voter registration, civic education and the actual conduct of elections. Francis Gachuri has a breakdown of the billions that the IEBC is seeking.