The Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission completed its public hearings last week. Meanwhile, there are nearly fifty five accusations levelled against the commissioners by different stakeholders and sixteen specifically against the chairman which the Parliamentary committee will be grappling with. But this article addresses itself to the form and manner in which the transition should be held. The commissioners and members of the secretariat who may not have been mentioned in any scandal should be retained during the transition phase. A typical example in the IEBC scenario is that the ‘new’ ICT director who has been in the office for a year or thereabout could not confidently respond to the parliamentary committee queries.

Source: Standard Digital August 08, 2016 08:03 UTC