IEBC agency exit could solve impasse

Our very progressive Constitution has the Government and its institutions by their necks. There is paralysis everywhere. Cabinet secretaries and bureaucrats can’t get things moving unless they laboriously and exhaustively consult.

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission cannot act tough on thieving individuals because it does not have prosecutorial powers and depends on the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to push cases. The National Cohesion and Integration Commission is all bark but no bite. The Judiciary is morphing into a circus. Judges are increasingly getting embroiled in legal tussles; they act independently and don’t read from the same script on matters of law.