NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 17 - President William Ruto has asserted that the Cherera-led Four commissioners at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ...
We have witnessed him lead an organisation in learning from its mistakes and do better each succeeding time. “The horrifying drama at Bomas and the emergence of break-away commissioners answering to external instructions represented a dismayingly low point in our democratic history. The President narrated how the state had executed plans to blackmail, extort, and intimidate various public officials of the IEBC to subvert the will of the people in the August 9 poll.
President William Ruto has made accusations that members of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) were offered bribes and threatened ...
Again, we know that they stood strong and firmly said “NO!” the head of state said. Of course, nobody came," Chebukati said. "They call us three musketeers. He said he was relieved to see that the country had moved on peacefully and nobody was looking for him. "We know that there was a direct attempt to abduct Wafula Chebukati and murder him so that he commission would be paralysed, or a compliant commissioner take over and subvert the people’s sovereignty," he said. In addition, Ruto claimed that there was an attempt to abduct Chebukati and murder him in order to cripple the commission.
After six years at the helm of the country's electoral agency, Chairperson Wafula Wanyonyi Chebukati has exited the commission.
Having superintended the presidential elections in 2017 and 2022, he believes he has every reason to be happy with his performance, especially last year when the stakes were so high given that the incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta was leaving office thus presenting the country a challenge of transition. The apex court, however, upheld the results as announced by Chebukati. The 2022 election outcome was disputed by Azimio la Umoja Presidential Candidate Raila Odinga who petitioned the matter at the Supreme Court.
Outgoing IEBC commissioners Moya Bolu, Abdi Guliye and Chair Wafula Chebukati during the launch of the 2022 Post-Election Evaluation Report on Monday, January ...
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Ruto said IEBC Chairperson Wafula Chebukati, CEO Hussein Marjan Abdi, and commissioners Yakub Guliye and Boya Molu were given the 'rewards' to cooperate with ...
Guliye had on Monday revealed that he went into hiding for three days following the drama that unfolded in Bomas of Kenya in August 2022. Again, we know that they stood strong and firmly said “NO!” he said. "Through Wafula Chebukati, we have seen what integrity looks like at work.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 17 — Outgoing Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Wafula Chebukati has handed over the commission's exit ...
Article 89(2) of the Constitution requires the IEBC to conduct exercise between eight and twelve years. Parliament which is on recess untill February 14 might be recalled for a special sitting to consider the Bill to pave the way for the selection of new commissioners. The status on the commission is particularly crucial given the impending delimitation of boundaries exercise which is set to be concluded by 2024 with the collection of views from the public expected to start this year.
President William Ruto has claimed the previous administration wanted Wafula Chebukati to overturn the will of the people. He claimed Chebukati would be ...
It was a hard, cold and lonely time. [IEBC](https://www.tuko.co.ke/tag/iebc-kenya/) commissioners had been promised lavish gifts so as to overturn what he said was the people's sovereignty. [Wafula Chebukati](https://www.tuko.co.ke/tag/wafula-chebukati-latest-news/) during the August 2022 General Election.
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The recommendations in IEBC's post-election evaluation report, launched on Monday by chairman Wafula Chebukati, calls for review of the law to allow voters to ...
Dziwe Zuma and Suleiman Mwanguku, in their submission filed by M.M Gitonga Advocates LLP before Justice Francis Gikonyo, argued that the Independent Electoral ...
The IEBC Presiding Officers were clearly playing for Achani’s team instead of being neutral and impartial referees,” the petitioners stated in the submission documents. Zuma and Mwanguku also argued that the electoral body took advantage of the fact that large areas in Lunga Lunga and Kinango constituencies are inhabited by illiterate voters who needed assistance to vote. “Both the electoral body and the County Returning Officer consistently disregarded the constitutional and statutory provisions in place to safeguard the will of the people.
The recommendations in IEBC's post-election evaluation report, launched on Monday by chairman Wafula Chebukati, calls for review of the law to allow voters to ...
Last September, police were forced to lob teargas to disperse Azimio legislators and activists protesting interdiction of IEBC deputy CEO, Ruth Kulundu. The ...
Last September, police were forced to lob teargas to disperse Azimio la Umoja legislators and activists protesting interdiction of IEBC deputy chief executive officer, Ruth Kulundu. - Last September, police were forced to lob teargas to disperse Azimio legislators and activists protesting interdiction of IEBC deputy CEO, Ruth Kulundu. The report further said there has been a growing human resource capacity that demands for more office space that makes it prudent for the commission to acquire its own headquarters.
FAREWELL: IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati during the launch of the 2022 Post-Election Evaluation Report, at the Safari Park hotel on Monday, January 16, ...
Chebukati was on Tuesday treated to a presidential farewell party at State House where the President and top Kenya Kwanza leaders hailed him for his courage. Yesterday (Tuesday), I successfully completed my term." - Chebukati was on Tuesday treated to a presidential farewell party at State House where the President and top Kenya Kwanza leaders hailed him for his courage.
Outgoing IEBC chairperson Wafula Chebukati has shared his parting sentiments as he and the commissioners who served together with him exit their roles at ...
"I wish to thank Kenyans for giving me the opportunity to serve them. It was undoubtedly a challenging assignment, but I served my country to the best of my ability and in accordance with the oath of office that I took," Chebukati wrote. God bless Kenya," he concluded. The message was posted on his social media platforms at an odd hour - 1:46 a.m. Yesterday I successfully completed the term. God bless IEBC.
The outgoing Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairperson Wafula Chebukati received a glowing tribute from President William Ruto during his last ...
Many more were subjected to serious threats, coercion, intimidation and all forms of pressure by emboldened agents of impunity,” he said “It matters always that a public officer endeavours to do the right thing. He said Chebukati’s uncompromising commitment to his constitutional responsibility enabled him to deliver an election that met the highest possible standards.
The society of Atheists in Kenya (AIK) has faulted the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) for conducting prayers on Monday, January 16, ...
“During the launch, it came to our attention that IEBC has a corporate prayer. For years during the tenure of former President Uhuru Kenyatta, AIK used to ask Kenyans to distance themselves from calls of holding a national prayer day in the country as he called for peace. This is not the first time the society has dismissed matters of prayers in the country as they ask Kenyans to ignore. In the statements that were sent to media houses in the country, the atheists termed the calls by the Head of State as mere ‘political gimmicks.’ For years during the tenure of former President Uhuru Kenyatta, AIK used to ask Kenyans to distance themselves from calls to hold a national prayer day in the country as he called for peace. This is not the first time the society has dismissed matters of prayers in the country as they ask Kenyans to ignore them.
Former IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati, Commissioners Boya Molu and Professor Abdi Guliye at Safari Park on January 16, 2023. Image: HANDOUT.
We leave contented that we gave it our best shot under the circumstances,” he said. After six years of service, Chebukati and commissioners Boya Molu and Abdi Guliye left the commission after their term ended on January 17. The three became the first commissioners of the IEBC to ever leave their positions on account of term completion.
IEBC chairperson Wafula Chebukati during the launch of post-election evaluation report on the August 9, 2022, General Election at Safari Park January 16, ...
“I was appointed the chairperson of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission on January 18, 2017, for a constitutional term of six years. “I exit contented that we gave it our best to this commission. God bless Kenya,” he said.