Rogue commissioners who put IEBC in turmoil want to finish it

Robert Frost, the vaunted American poet, once observed that “home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” For most Kenyans with rural ancestral roots, the “home” referenced here would be the village. That’s where most Kenyans go to expire when they are ready to exit this world.

They don’t go to die in the “office” where they worked. A public office isn’t a personal residence from which one can abscond and return willy nilly. To wit, an office isn’t the “village” which can’t reject you. But rogue IEBC commissioners Connie Maina and Margaret Mwachanya – who resigned and then “unresigned” – conflate the electoral body with their personal residences, or the ancestral village.