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Kenya: Start Hiring of New CEO Afresh - Polls Body Told
Nation, 24 October 2020
The Labour court has ordered the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to start afresh the process of recruiting a new chief executive, who also doubles up as the… Read more »
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Kenya: BBI Proposal on a Clean Slate Commission for 2022 Polls Ill-Founded - IEBC
Capital FM, 24 October 2020
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has termed as unfortunate and ill-founded a proposal by Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) task force to reconstitute the… Read more »
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Kenya: IEBC Reforms Critical in the Race Against Time
Nation, 23 October 2020
Proper management of elections has emerged as one of the critical areas in focus in the proposed legal reforms spelt out in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report. Read more »
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Kenya: MPs Approve Bill on Team to Hire IEBC Commissioners
Nation, 16 October 2020
The National Assembly has approved a Bill that stipulates the selection of a panel to recruit electoral commissioners. Read more »
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Kenya: Jitters as IEBC Director Kassait Picked for Data Job
Nation, 15 October 2020
The nomination of a director with the electoral agency who had a starring role in the August 2017 presidential petition as the country's inaugural data commissioner has caused… Read more »
Kenya's Polls Body Ordered to Start Hiring New CEO Afresh
The Labour Court has ordered the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to start afresh the process of recruiting a new chief executive, who also doubles up as the agency's secretary. Justice Byram Ongaya has ordered that the new exercise be done in strict compliance with the law. The recruitment seeks to fill the position that was left vacant by Ezra Chiloba, who was fired in 2018. Ongaya found that in the process of recruiting a new CEO, the institution had violated section 10(1) and 27 of the IEBC Act and the national values and principles of governance in Article 10 of the Constitution. The violated provisions provided for recruitment of the commission secretary through an open, transparent and competitive process that leads to appointment of a qualified person. The next general election is scheduled to take place in August 2022, where voters will elect the president and members of the National Assembly and Senate.
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Spearheaded by President Uhuru Kenyatta and Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga, the Building Bridges Initiative proposes that the constitution be changed to introduce Read more »
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With the next elections just 24 months away, the pace of reforms at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) remains a major concern as little has been done to ... Read more »
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The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairperson Wafula Chebukati has said a preliminary audit revealed that a governance problem could cripple the commission if not ... Read more »
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This follows the sacking of Ezra Chiloba as the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission CEO after a 'nasty fall-out' with the agency's chairman Wafula Chebukati . The ... Read more »
IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati, centre, former Commissioner Roselyne Akombe and former CEO Ezra Chiloba address journalists (file photo).
