By Fredrick Obura
The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce (KNCC) will now hold its national elections within two weeks.
The new date is expected to be announced on
Monday after the Attorney General intervened to have to the court cases barring elections withdrawn. The elections were supposed to have been held last month, but stalled due to differences between two factions of the chamber.
“We have ironed out issues that suspended the elections of national officials of the chamber. It was after a successful mediation by the Attorney General,” said Laban Onditi, national chairman, KNCC.
“The elections will be held in a few days in accordance to the new chamber rules,” he said. Speaking during the opening ceremony of Auto Exhibition in Nairobi yesterday, Onditi said the chamber has conducted grassroot elections in 42 of the 47 counties.
“The remaining counties will not interfere with our national elections. They will have their new representatives once we are done with the national elections,” he said. Ondit observed grass root elections in the five counties was affected by either lack of a quorum or failure to meet requirements.
Nandi County could not hold its grassroots elections due to lack of quorum, the remaining did not file returns as required by the chamber. In the chamber’s governing council meeting held last month, a section of the chamber led by the Vice-Chairman Michael Kitiyo supported a court ruling ordering the Registrar to direct and supervise the KNCCI elections from grassroots to national level.
