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Ball set rolling to end standoff on appointment of new IEBC team

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By Edwin Nyarangi | Feb 12, 2024

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**Members of the National Dialogue Committee during a session at Bomas of Kenya on September 25, 2023.** [File, Standard]

The ball is now in the court of Parliament as both the Senate and National Assembly resume sittings tomorrow to get the country out of a crisis occasioned by the lack of a functional Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).

Both the Senate and National Assembly are set to debate the National Dialogue Committee (Nadco) report's recommendations on having a new electoral commission in place even as the panel formed by President William Ruto to begin the process of hiring commissioners made its intentions clear - that it is moving ahead with its assignment.

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