The next elections will be held in August 2022, which as of today is just 24 months away.
There is also a proposal to provide a mechanism for recruitment of new electoral commissioners.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga are in a dilemma over the impending referendum on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) recommendations even as the country waits for the report to be made public.
With the Covid-19 crisis and a battered economy, the two leaders are facing yet another big test in the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). The initial BBI report recommended an overhaul of the commission, half of whose commissioners – Vice-chairperson Connie Nkatha Maina, Roselyn Akombe, Margaret Mwachanya and Paul Kurgat -- resigned. IEBC has been running with just three commissioners namely chairperson Wafula Chebukati, Prof Abdi Guliye and Boya Molu, which is the bare minimum the commission can have, meaning that the absence of one of them cripples the commission.
