Attempts to cripple IEBC are not in nation’s best interest

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) faced attacks from politicians unhappy with the manner in which it carved out 80 new constituencies.

The body that is charged with overseeing Kenya’s first general election under the current Constitution faces the difficult task of erasing the memories of its predecessor, the Electoral Commission of Kenya whose bungling of the 2007 polls is partly to blame for the post-election violence that followed a dispute over the winner of the presidential ballot.