Petitioners urge CJ Koome to stop swearing-in of new IEBC team
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Petitioners
challenging the reconstitution of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission
(IEBC) have written to Chief Justice Martha Koome seeking orders to stop the Judiciary
from swearing-in the newly gazetted team.
Petitioners Kelvin
Omondi and Boniface Mwangi are accusing President William Ruto of being in contempt
of court in gazetting the new team, when a case challenging the process of the
formation of the new commission is before court for determination.
The petitioners argue
that: “Your Ladyship, the Judiciary remains the last bastion of hope in
upholding the rule of law and the constitutionalism. Vide this letter, we
humbly urge your good office and the Judiciary as a whole not to participate in
any oath taking and assumption of office by the interested parties until the
subject petition is heard and determined as was so ordered.”
President Ruto, in
a gazette notice dated June 20, 2025, appointed Erastus Edung Ethekon as the new IEBC Chairperson.
The Head of
State also appointed six new commissioners, among them Registrar of Political
Parties Ann Njeri Nderitu.
The others
are: Moses Alutalala Mukhwana, Mary Karen Sorobit, Hassan Noor Hassan, Francis
Odhiambo Aduol, and Fahima Araphat Abdallah.
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