Tribunal appointed by President Ruto to commence probe on IEBC's Irene Masit
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File| IEBC commissioner Irene Masit.
The tribunal formed by President William Ruto to probe the conduct of
four suspended IEBC commissioners is set to host a status conference on Friday, December 9 during which three commissioners who have tendered their resignation are
expected to file their letters.
The Justice Aggrey Muchelule-led tribunal is expected to only probe the
petitions against Commissioner Irene Masit, whose lawyer Donald Kipkorir
insists that she has not resigned.
Commissioner Francis Wanderi has become the
latest commissioner of the IEBC to throw in the towel, a week after his
suspension. In his letter to the president, Wanderi says that his decision “has
been necessitated by undue and unwarranted public lynching based on falsified
information tainting his reputation and integrity.”
Wanderi says that he has resigned, “not
because he is guilty of the allegations leveled against him, but because there
comes a time when the country is more important than any individual.”
Wanderi joins his former colleagues
Julianna Cherera who until Monday was the IEBC vice chair and Justus Nyangaya
who resigned Friday last week.
Wanderi says that the “Cherera 4” exercised
their right to express themselves on last-minute decisions of the IEBC Chairperson, which amounted to a lack of
transparency, high-handedness and dictatorial mannerisms.
This as Commissioner Irene Masit chose to
stay put, expected to defend her role as an IEBC commissioner. Lawyer Donald
Kipkorir tweeted saying that commissioner Masit has instructed him to defend
her tenure at the IEBC, adding that he has filed a constitutional petition at
the High Court against the tribunal processes.
Reports from the tribunal indicate that a
status conference called for Friday will take stock of recent developments
among the suspended commissioners, during which the commissioners or their
legal representatives should furnish the tribunal with the said resignations.
The team will still have to write a report to the president in accordance with
the terms of reference.
As he left, Commissioner Wanderi
stated, “I trust that the government will institute a standing body to
address the corporate governance issues with IEBC, including disputes among
commissioners, to avoid future boardroom raptures.”
Despite the resignations and therefore
non-requirement for the commissioners to appear before the tribunal, some of
the members of parliament prefer the formation of an independent commission of
inquiry to look into the August 15th events and the preceding developments that
ended up with a split commission, divided on the final outcome of the
presidential election.
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