The Justice and Legal Affairs Committee
will begin vetting IEBC commissioner
nominees today.
The committee chaired by Ainabkoi
MP Samuel Chepkonga will start by
vetting chairperson nominee Wafula
Chebukati at the mini-chambers at
County Hall.
The legal committee will then
question Consolata Nkatah, Boya Molu
and Roselyn Akombe, who have been
nominated as commissioners for the
Independent Electoral and Boundaries
Commission.
The committee will tomorrow wind
up by questioning Paul Kurgat, Margaret
Mwachanya and Abdi Guliye.
The committee will then table its report
before the National Assembly next
Tuesday, when MPs are expected to hold
a special sitting.
The committee begins its work
against the backdrop of a case filed by
former Law Society of Kenya CEO Apollo
Mboya who wants Parliament
stopped from vetting the nominees.
Mboya says the selection panel,
chaired by Bernadette Musundi, contravened
the Constitution when it chose
the nominees because it failed to make
public the criteria used to sift through
the applications for the shortlist.
The
integrity of some nominees has been
questioned , with claims against Chebukati
and Nkatha.
Chebukati was the
lawyer of former anti-graft chief Philip
Kinisu, whose firm Esaki Ltd received
Sh35 million from the National Youth
Service.
Nkatha was accused of defrauding
the National Museums of Kenya.