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On IEBC, President Uhuru Kenyatta right to protect the law

President Uhuru Kenyatta is being relentlessly pressured by CORD to reform the electoral management body in Kenya, IEBC, ahead of the August 2017 elections. All along, the President has been categorical that he lacks the legal and constitutional authority needed to pursue the course of action urged upon him by the Opposition, instead calling on CORD to trigger the reform of IEBC through a parliamentary process.

Much has been written and canvassed on both print and electronic media on the legality of the President’s position, especially more lately, by the learned judge Lee Muthoga.

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