IEBC defends ID rule for aspirants clearance ahead of elections

IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

The electoral agency has maintained that the decision to have aspirants present their supporters’ identification documents for clearance to vie for office was not in breach of the law.

In a letter signed by Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Wafula Chebukati and sent to Thirdway Alliance leader Ekuru Aukot (one of the 18 petitioners of a case against the commission), the electoral agency argued that “every law is presumed to be constitutional until declared otherwise by a court of law.”