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IEBC on the spot for clearing Mbeere candidate despite EACC concerns

Mbeere North UDA candidate Leo Wamuthende during the Karerema People's Forum, Mbeere North Constituency, Embu County. [PHOEBE OKALL/DPCS]

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), it seems, is anything but independent.

The Standard has established from credible sources within the commission that the chairman, Erastus Edung Ekethon, bowed to political pressure and hastily instructed the secretariat to clear a tainted candidate for the Mbeere North parliamentary seat.

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