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NAIROBI: The IEBC deal struck by the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee headed by Senators Kiraitu Murungi and James Orengo is a landmark agreement that ought to be applauded. It is an icebreaker in the sour relations between the political class, their party leaders and the two Houses of Parliament.
All were at loggerheads a few months ago, and the altercations on the matter of IEBC between the political class spilled onto the streets, leading to fatal violence and near anarchy. I had penned an opinion piece at the time that the solution to the IEBC crises lay with MPs, and suggested that CORD should hold their demos at Parliament, not IEBC offices. My argument was simple: Parliament was the hindrance to reforms at IEBC.
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