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The sustained calls and campaign by CORD coalition for commissioners to leave office is not founded on flippant allegations but realities on ground shared by most Kenyans.
In 2012 the lack of impartiality of IEBC commissioners was exposed in
the registration of voters for the last general election, the IEBC
distributed BVR machines unequally so that some regions of Kenya got a
chance to register more voters than other areas.
The result of the registration exercise conducted by the IEBC in 2012 is the infamous “tyranny of numbers”. It was not that Jubilee areas did a better job pushing people to register. It was that the IEBC made it easier for people in those zones to register through skewed distribution of registration kits.
Free, fair and regular elections are enduring foundations of every democratic state, not just as episodic events, but as an integral part and societal infrastructure of civilized nations.
Kenyans note with concern the silence, secrecy, denial and general incompetence surrounding the IEBC three years after the last election in which all the equipment failed within the first hour of the opening of the polls.
Three years after an election characterised by missing Forms 34s and ever shifting numbers in the register of voters, virtually nothing is going on.
The BVR equipment failed in 2012, Kenyans have not been assured of any tests done to ascertain the kits can be used in 2017, and where they have been kept is a mystery.
The ground is being laid for another last-minute dash that paves the way for monumental corruption and, eventually, national grand failure.
Three years after the failure, Kenyans do not know anything that the IEBC is doing to ensure all citizens of voting age are registered or to get elections, including transmission of results.
Kenya has a population of more than 40 million people, but IEBC in has only registered 14 million people or 34 per cent as voters, a substantial number of potential voters left out.
The government and the IEBC are arguing against calls for reforms whose aim is to mend the democratic process, and ensure that the results of elections accurately reflect the will of the voters.
We cannot sit back and wait for a miracle.
IEBC bosses, led by their Chairman, Issack Hassan, and Chief Executive Officer, Ezra Chiloba are still in office on borrowed time. The patients of Kenyans has been stretched to the limits by the continued stay in office by the Commissioners.
The result of the registration exercise conducted by the IEBC in 2012 is the infamous “tyranny of numbers”. It was not that Jubilee areas did a better job pushing people to register. It was that the IEBC made it easier for people in those zones to register through skewed distribution of registration kits.
Free, fair and regular elections are enduring foundations of every democratic state, not just as episodic events, but as an integral part and societal infrastructure of civilized nations.
Kenyans note with concern the silence, secrecy, denial and general incompetence surrounding the IEBC three years after the last election in which all the equipment failed within the first hour of the opening of the polls.
Three years after an election characterised by missing Forms 34s and ever shifting numbers in the register of voters, virtually nothing is going on.
The BVR equipment failed in 2012, Kenyans have not been assured of any tests done to ascertain the kits can be used in 2017, and where they have been kept is a mystery.
The ground is being laid for another last-minute dash that paves the way for monumental corruption and, eventually, national grand failure.
Three years after the failure, Kenyans do not know anything that the IEBC is doing to ensure all citizens of voting age are registered or to get elections, including transmission of results.
Kenya has a population of more than 40 million people, but IEBC in has only registered 14 million people or 34 per cent as voters, a substantial number of potential voters left out.
The government and the IEBC are arguing against calls for reforms whose aim is to mend the democratic process, and ensure that the results of elections accurately reflect the will of the voters.
We cannot sit back and wait for a miracle.
IEBC bosses, led by their Chairman, Issack Hassan, and Chief Executive Officer, Ezra Chiloba are still in office on borrowed time. The patients of Kenyans has been stretched to the limits by the continued stay in office by the Commissioners.
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