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Details of how selection panel settled on new IEBC team

Selection panel for Independent electoral and boundaries commission(IEBC) led by Chairperson Bernadette Musundi(R) and her Vice Abdulghafur El-Busaidy addresses a press conference at County Hall, Nairobi on Friday 25/11/16.PHOTO:BONIFACE OKENDO

Details have emerged on the intrigues that played out in the interviewing and final shortlisting of 11 names from whom the President will, by law, pick the chairman and six commissioners to replace the outgoing team led Issack Hassan.

It also emerged that because of constitutional provisions to ensure regional balance in public bodies, the President may most likely pick lawyer Tukero ole Kina to be the chairperson of the electoral body and not the only other nominee, Wafula Chebukati.

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