Thursday, February 17, 2022 – The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has reassured Deputy President William Ruto’s camp that it is ready to effectively conduct the August 9, General Election.
Speaking yesterday during a Kenya Editors Guild (KEG) National Dialogue Breakfast meeting in Nairobi, IEBC Acting Director for Voter Education, Partnerships, and Communication Joyce Ekuam allayed fears that the commission is ill-prepared to conduct a free and fair election.
“We as an election management body in Kenya is ready to conduct elections on August 9, 2022.
“Our state of preparedness is strongly backed by a comprehensive legal framework for elections in this country,” Ekuam said.
She noted that the commission is working to ensure that it fills all the vacant positions in all the 290 constituencies and that they are currently training election coordinators to ensure the election process is a success.
“We have the 290 constituency election coordinators, who will be returning officers.
“There is also a lot of training and capacity building as far as preparations are concerned,” she assured.
This comes just a day after Deputy President William Ruto’s camp expressed fear that the IEBC is not ready to effectively handle the August 9, General Election.
Ruto’s allies had on Tuesday raised concerns of IEBC’s capability to deliver free and fair elections amid vote-rigging claims.
Also, the commission doesn’t have a substantive Chief Executive Officer a few months before the election.
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