IEBC’s bottomless pit keeping cost of elections high
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairman Wafula Chebukati addressing during the Editors and IEBC Consultative Meeting in Mombasa on August 9, 2021.
People who defend the agency’s outsize budgets love to throw in that ‘democracy is expensive’ cliché’.
It is not just the misplaced priority that should bother Kenyans about the spending on elections.
In Kenya, democracy is not only expensive, it can be callous.
Consider that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is set to burn a cool Sh40 billion on the 2022 General Election alone – a five-year ritual that will produce some of the greediest cadre of public servants anywhere in the world.
