Why picking new IEBC officials calls for utmost care, diligence

Outgoing IEBC officials Abdi Guliye, Boya Molu and chairman Wafula Chebukati. [File, Standard]

Nothing exhibits the casual way in which we treat critical national issues like the way filling of vacancies at the Independent, Electoral and Boundaries Commission has been handled.

In our constitutional design, the IEBC and more particularly its chair, is the premier state institution handling some of the most delicate and "crisis fomenting" components of our governance framework.