Court now strips IEBC boss power to change constituency results

ODM Leader Raila Odinga(C) accompanied by National Election Board team Junet Mohamed and Agnes Zani addresses a press conference. (Photo: Boniface Okendo/Standard)

The High Court has stripped the electoral commission chairperson of significant powers of tallying the presidential election in a decision endorsed by CORD leader Raila Odinga.

The decision by three judges — Chacha Mwita, Weldon Korir and Aggrey Muchelule — knocked down all sections of election rules and regulations subjecting presidential vote announcement made at the constituencies to verification by a national tallying centre.