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The Justice and Legal Affairs Committee of Parliament has taken a sober approach to forestall a crisis on the replacement of the commissioners of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). They know that the existing mode of appointing commissioners, in case the current ones leave office suddenly, will be a source of political friction.
The MPs have been looking at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Act – the law setting up the IEBC—with a view to finding what the chairman Samuel Chepkonga termed an “acceptable” mode of picking new commissioners.
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