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Wrangles mar selection of panel to hire IEBC team

LSK Chief Executive Officer Mercy Wambua and society’s president, Nelson Havi (right), forwarded parallel letters. [Wiberforce Okwiri and Christopher Kipsang, Standard]

Leadership wrangles in the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) now threaten to forestall recruitment of the selection panel to spearhead hiring of four commissioners to the electoral body.

The society’s president, Nelson Havi, and Chief Executive Officer Mercy Wambua forwarded parallel letters with different names to the Parliamentary Service commission (PSC) for onward transmission to President Uhuru Kenyatta for appointment.

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