Revealed: Politics in hiring IEBC bosses and Akombe’s dramatic resignation

IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba (left), IEBC Commissiooner Roselyne Akombe and IEBC Vice chair Consolata Nkatha addressing the press at Bomas of Kenya. [Beverlyne Musili/Standard]

Kenya’s 2017 General Election was unprecedented and bitterly fought. Journalist JOHN ONYANDO, who served in the Opposition campaign, tells the inside story of Raila Odinga’s election machine in his book, Kenya: The Failed Quest for Electoral Justice. In the final of a three-part series, he tells of the intrigues at the poll agency before and after last electionS.

Long before joining the National Super Alliance (NASA), I knew well how politicised the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) – the agency responsible for Kenya’s national elections - had been right from the start of the reforms following the 2007 polls.