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Sack excess IEBC bosses, Speaker says T he Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is facing yet another reform challenge after Speaker of the National Assembly, Justin Muturi proposed the reduction of its commissioners from the current nine to three. Muturi says the Constitution requires independent commissions to have a minimum of three commissioners, making the additional six serving at IEBC unnecessary. “If you look at the composition of our commission, except the Gender Commission and the Commission on Administrative Justice, all these others are representatives
of provinces. We have nine commissioners waking up everyday pretending to go to work, which work? Which policy is this you are working on every day? When will it be implemented?” posed Muturi. He said the current structure of most constitutional commissions still took after the previous structure of provinces, stating that the additional commissioners were not performing any unique roles. “Kenya, with 40 million people, has nine commissioners at IEBC, while a country like India, with over one billion people, has not more than five commissioners in its electoral body. We have actually created a problem,” he said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
ADVISORY: Speaker Justin Muturi has advised the IEBC to let go of at least six commissioners.