Democracy is expensive, but IEBC needs to stop asking for billions of shillings to waste

IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati. In August, IEBC declared that it will need Sh40.9 billion to conduct the 2022 polls. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

In less than one year, Kenyans will make the same mistakes they made in previous five-year cycles of elections when they voted for people who only made their lives miserable.

Signs that polls are not far off have been given by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission with its mass voter registration that started less than seven days ago, and will run for 30 days.