Kituo Cha Sheria and the International Center for Policy and Conflict (ICPC) are concerned that MPs want to interfere with the new constitution by reducing the threshold of integrity required during elections. They say that political parties are powerful entities in elections and they should aptl

Murithi Mutiga retorts that our constitution may not adress some of the most pressing challenges Kenya faces. Ethnicity in Kenya is deeply rooted and the constitution did not seek to address this. It may probably be okay to have foreigners run our important bodies during this transition to ensure

ODM is uncomfortable with the proposal that the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) vets applicants to the election body. ODM is also suspicious of the independence of the Selection Panel. They are also against other clearance requirements that candidates should be subjected to saying t

Ken Arther Wekesa asserts that the issues raised on the integrity of the IIEC officers should be dismissed. There are people who do not want progress to be realised and will infiltrate the IIEC the way they did to the defunct ECK. These agents of status quo will want the discredit the IIEC and en

The new elections Bill has retained the proposal by the IIBC to create special seats in order to achieve the two thirds rule. The Bill that is awaiting cabinet nod proposes random designation of a quarter of the 290 constituencies into single gender participation seats. This is to ensure that the

A group of ODM MPs are not comfortable with conditions set by the Select Panel to appoint the IEBC commissioners. They affirm that KACC and NSIS will be reconstituted and they can therefore not determine the future of would commissioners. The Select Panel has however dismissed the concerns.

Ahmednasir Abdullahi writes that corruption mostly increases, as evidenced in our multi party elections, just before the elections. Perhaps the reason is that people want to loot not knowing whether they will come back to government or the loot to fundraise for the elections. Major projects sprin

Mutuma Mathiu affirms that Kenyans seem not to have learnt from the mstakes of the 2007 elections. Those who messed up the elections by appointing their cronies to the commission are now doing the same thing to the current commision. Indeed the Kriegler report had affirmed the need to overhaul th