Dr. Nelson Makanda picked as chairperson for IEBC Selection Panel
The panel is tasked with selecting the next team of seven IEBC commissioners within 85 days.
Dr. Nelson Makanda has been elected as the chairman of the newly established nine-member Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) selection panel.
The panel is tasked with selecting the next team of seven IEBC commissioners within 85 days.
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“For the next 85 days or less, we, as the Selection Panel, have undertaken to ensure that we deliver on our mandate of giving Kenyans the next chairperson and members of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission,” Makanda said.
The IEBC Selection Panel has elected Lindah Kiome as the Vice Chairperson.
Makanda explained that the IEBC Act requires the panel to, within seven days of its appointment, invite applications from qualified persons and publish the names and qualifications of all applicants in the gazette, two national newspapers, and on the website of the Parliamentary Service Commission.
“In this regard, the panel shall, tomorrow, February 1, 2025, invite applications from qualified Kenyans for the positions of chairperson and members of the IEBC,” he stated.
He assured Kenyans that the panel would carry out the recruitment process in a fair, transparent, and impartial way.
“I also want to take this opportunity to extend my sincere gratitude to the media for the support they have given the Panel. It is through the 4th Estate that the public can hold us to account as we dispense our duty,” he added.
Makanda said the public can rely on the media for updates on the process. “The panel will continuously issue updates to the country on the progress of this exercise,” he said.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Act, Cap. 7C outlines the composition of the Selection Panel, which includes nine members.
The members are nominated as follows: two persons by the Parliamentary Service Commission (representing the majority and minority parties); three persons by the Political Parties Liaison Committee; one person by the Law Society of Kenya; one person by the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya; and two persons by the Inter-religious Council of Kenya.
On January 27, 2025, President William Ruto appointed the members of the Selection Panel, who took their oaths of office before Chief Justice Martha Koome, as required by the Third Schedule of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Act.
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