After 2017 blunders, poll agency shouldn’t let Kenya down again

Voters queue at Chaka polling station in Nyeri County during the repeat election.[Nderitu Gichure, Standard]

Flashback to 2017. In a series of reports released by the Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG), a number of key election preparedness challenges were identified. Two months to the election, the Public Procurement Oversight Authority had found fault with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s (IEBC) procurement of ballot printing services and there was pending litigation on the matter.