Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) truce could be short-lived

Drama has characterised the Opposition-led push for minimum electoral reforms ahead of the 2017 General Election. In May, at the height of the protests, police, in dramatic scenes, lobbed tear-gas canisters at Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) leaders Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetang'ula, who were leading their supporters to Anniversary Towers in a bid to eject the already heavily discredited Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commissioners out of office.

The protesters also presented security forces with the opportunity to deploy and test their menacing, newly-acquired water cannon machines. Months on, at the conclusion of the reform process, the drama migrated from the streets of the capital to the floor of the august House, which was turned into a theatre of a different kind of agitation.