The IEBC has resigned from a state-created commission tasked with ensuring election readiness.
In a letter dated November 22 to Interior PS Karanja Kibicho, electoral agency chairman Wafula Chebukati stated that after consultations, the agency had decided to withdraw from the National Multi-Sectoral Consultative Forum on Election Preparedness and Technical Working Committee, claiming that the panel would jeopardize its independence.
“The IEBC would respectfully withdraw from future engagement in the operations of the abovementioned NMSCF and TWC after consultations and an in-depth critical analysis of the TORs,” he stated.
The National Multi-Sectoral Consultative Forum on Election Preparedness and Technical Working Committee brings together stakeholders to plan for the elections in 2022.
It is made up of all of the ministries, agencies, and departments in charge of the election cycle.
The TORs, according to Chebukati, “violated the Constitution by pretending to command the commission on how to exercise its duty in violation of Article 88 of the Constitution.”
Attorney-General Kihara Kariuki, Chief Justice Martha Koome, Treasury CS Ukur Yatani, ICT CS Joe Mucheru, NIS director-general Philip Kameru, IG Hillary Mutyambai, and DPP Noordin Haji were among the recipients of the letter.
Chebukati also accused the forum of taking the roles of other institutions, such as the National Assembly’s Justice and Legal Affairs Committee.
Deputy President William Ruto’s UDA filed an official protest with Koome last week, urging her to refrain from overseeing elections.
Koome’s “constant involvement in the workings of the Technical Working Committee, which is entrusted and mandated with 2022 election preparations,” was not promising, according to the United Democratic Alliance.
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