Reconstitution of IEBC proves a hot potato at Bomas bipartisan talks

National Dialogue Committee co-chairs Kalonzo Musyoka (left) and Kimani Ichung'wah at the Bomas of Kenya, September 2023. [Dennis Kavisu, Standard]

President William Ruto and his Kenya Kwanza administration will most likely reap more dividends from the constitutional reforms talks than Raila Odinga's Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition.

Political analysts argue that most of the key proposals on the agreed agenda favour the Kenya Kwanza side apart from the reconstitution of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).