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Ethekon, IEBC team should win Kenyans' trust for 2027 contest

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Erastus Edung Ethekon, together with IEBC Commissioners, during a media briefing at PrideInn Paradise - Shanzu in Mombasa County on July 19, 2025, where he gave an update on the Commission's priority areas. [Robert Menza/Standard]

I am an avid supporter of Article 104 right, which enables citizens to recall their Member of Parliament. It is the unabridged version of exercising sovereignty provided in Article 1 of our Constitution.

Indeed, I prefer that process to the Kangaroo route by which directly elected representatives are impeached by a handful of representatives completely devoid of any views from the electors on whether the impeachee should go home.

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