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Questions raised over why IEBC ignored best candidates

Selection panel for Independent electoral and boundaries commission(IEBC) led by Chairperson Bernadette Musundi and her Vice Abdulghafur El-Busaidy. (Photo:Boniface Okendo)

Anger greeted revelations that the selection panel that recruited the men and women who will preside over August General Elections may have done a patchy job.

Panel chair Bernadette Musundi kept off media inquiries into the quality of her panel’s work as it emerged that warring panelists shot down best candidates to improve chances of their favourites. Musundi could neither answer our phone calls nor respond to mobile phone messages.

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