Aside from the list of shame that Kenyans want paraded on erected bill boards countrywide for being involved in corruption, there is also a list of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission members to go down for elections manipulation.
The list provided in a special report by the National Assembly’s public accounts committee(PAC) commissioners recommended that Chairman Wafula Chebukati,former CEO Ezra Chiloba Boya Mule,Abdi Guliye, former Commissioners Consolata Maina, Margaret Mwachanya and Paul Kurgat be prosecuted over the bungled poll.
However former IEBC commissioner Roselyn Akombe has been exempted from the list.In her press conference, she had claimed that the exercise could not even pass a basic credibility test.
Chebukati has been accused of awarding millions in contracts to law firms associated with him to represent IEBC in various petitions.
“The chairman of the commission, in serious violation of Chapter Six of the Constitution, presided over the allocation of legal work to his former law firm without disclosing this relationship or even cautioning the Secretariat,” read the report.
The lawmakers established that the election was marred by interests of a team that turned into speculators and wheeler-dealers.
“It was all blame game. The picture that emerged was that of an IEBC that was held hostage by incessant battles of supremacy between the Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer,” the report further condemned the poll.