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Chebukati is solely responsible for all that went wrong at IEBC

Things are falling apart at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and its chairman, Wafula Chebukati is simply the centre that cannot hold. He has done in a year, what took Raila Odinga three years, many tear gas Mondays and a joint parliamentary push to do. Mr Chebukati has torn the commission apart and is a classic example of the weakest link.

The work of a chair in any commission is to be the glue that binds it, instead, Mr Chebukati is like a repulsive magnet that has driven four commissioners out of office; a single one who ran away to the USA and the three who resigned this month.

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