IEBC Selection Panel to be sued for consuming public funds without doing its job

Civil societies will  next week head to court to sue the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Selection Panel over failure to constitute a formidable electoral agency.

They argue that the Nelson Makanda-led committee has been in office gobbling up public funds for over six months now since the court okayed it to kickstart the process.

Led by Uchaguzi Platform and the Elections Observations Group (ELOG), they say the country has been subjected to uncertainty by lack of a properly constituted electoral body yet the Selection Panel is sitting on the fence.

ELOG boss Musau Mulee said the country risks facing the crisis of representation citing Banisa Constituency which lost its MP Maalim Kullow March last year and upto now is not represented in Parliament.

At the same event the, the consortium through their legal consultant Steve Ogolla poked holes on the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) report which is already before Parliament saying it has numerous constitutional gaps that need to be bridged if the report is to be implemented.

They allayed fears that some of the proposals in the nine Bills are unrealistic and unconstitutional and were designed to settle political scores other than reforming the governance architecture.

Through lawyer Ogolla, they are now mulling challenging the recommendations in court before their implementations.

This as opposition leaders have been blaming the Executive for delaying the implementation of the nine Bills.