This archive report was first published on 28 November 2019.
Published on November 28, 2019
IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati has expressed confidence in his agency's ability to conduct elections despite the Building Bridges Initiative's (BBI) proposal to overhaul the commission.
Chebukati's term as IEBC Chairman is set to end in January 2023, along with those of his fellow commissioners, who were appointed in January 2017.
"We came in office in 2017 January, our term of office ends in January 2023, so as far as I am concerned our contract is still on," he said during the 6th Annual Continental Forum of Election Management Bodies.
The BBI report, launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta, his Deputy William Ruto, and Opposition chief Raila Odinga, proposes sweeping changes to the IEBC, including the overhaul of the commission and the nomination of non-partisan commissioners with clear integrity records.
"I am not worried about it," Chebukati said of the report, which has sparked mixed reactions in the political class.
