Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has appealed to the international community to help exert pressure on the government to reconstitute the Independent Electoral Boundaries and Commission (IEBC).

IEBC is currently without a chairperson and commissioners despite the continued operation of its Secretariat.

Government Spokesperson Isaac Mwaura said in a recent address a court injunction blocking the formation of the IEBC Selection panel was to blame for the delay to reconstitute the commission. 

“The Wiper Party should consult with its members and nominate a candidate to the selection committee,” Mwaura said.

“There’s no need to take this matter to court; let’s resolve it and move forward,” he urged.

Gachagua said it was unfortunate that the country continues to remain without an electoral body contrary to the Kriegler report as the clock ticks towards 2027.

“The process is as important as its outcome,” he said.

“We want to ask the newly-elected US President Donald Trump to help us, mobilise other world leaders to put pressure on President William Ruto to constitute IEBC to start planning and preparing for the 2027 General Election,” Gachagua said.

The Kriegler report, he said, requires that the country should have a functional electoral commission three years to a general election.

The former DP linked the delay to reconstitute the electoral agency to calls by a section of politicians who were rooting for the extension of the presidential term limit.

Speaking in during a church service in Dandora,  Nairobi, January 12, Gachagua also took issue with President Ruto over his calls for parents to instill good morals in their children while overlooking incidences of use of abusive language by some of his insiders.

Gachagua said as parents, they will take the responsibility to guide their children but asked the President to tame some of his allies whom he said have taken to using abusive language during public rallies.

“Your friends and those who hang around you are the ones who are making these children to be abusive, you are the President and you are not telling them to stop,” he said.

“Much as you are telling us we have not brought up our children well, before you remove the speck in our eye, remove the log in yours.” The former DP further revealed that they have assembled a team of lawyers to document the happenings in the country. By FELIX KIPKEMOI, The Star