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Infighting at the electoral body undermines our democracy

The purported suspension of Independent Electoral and Boundaries commission’s CEO Ezra Chiloba by the commission’s chairman Wafula Chebukati and other recent on-goings at the commission do not serve any public interest.

Granted that all commissions and public institutions are put in place to serve the public for common good, it is clear IEBC has chosen the forbidden path. How else can any sane Kenyan understand that a group of individuals who are paid by the public to be in office to serve on important electoral, governance and democratic issues cannot agree on anything?

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