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Opinion: Why debilitating expressions should be shunned

IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati and CEO Ezra Chiloba photo:courtesy

Every election year, the electoral commission (the name has changed over the years) is a beleaguered institution. Everybody - the opposition, the Political Parties Tribunal, civil society, the public, the international community, and the Government - all demand its attention.

They want a piece of it and whenever their egos are not massaged, they prod the electoral agency out of its lethargy through the courts.

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