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CORD’s shenanigans might spark another violence

Politics and sanity often don't go along but honestly this call by CORD to disband the current IEBC and form a new one needs to be given a second thought. Why would the National Council of Churches and the workers union be joining in if surely something wasn't a miss?

Looking at the issues raised by all these parties objectively, a new IEBC needs to be constituted immediately before it is too late. Most of the commissioners in the electoral body have been accused or adversely mentioned in the Chicken Gate scandal that led to conviction and jailing of some in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, some of these commissioners were and are still in office while the said investigation is still going on.

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