The Inter-Religious Council of Kenya has proposed the removal of boundaries' delimitation function from the IEBC.
Appearing before the National Dialogue Committee at Bomas of Kenya on Monday, the council noted that the function remains a highly emotive and public interest issue.
"The function should be located in a framework established under the Act of Parliament with multi-stakeholder representation that is set up every eight to 10 years to do a review as is the case in the US or South Africa," council vice chair F.S Abdallah said.
He said the move will enable IEBC to deal with election matters and shield the boundary delimitation process from the electoral process.
On Friday, the IEBC Secretariat also proposed to have the boundary review function dropped from the list of its mandate.
The secretariat said boundary review is an emotive issue that has the potential of setting Kenyans against the electoral agency.
The next review of the boundaries of constituencies and wards must be undertaken and concluded by March 2024.
Article 89 of the constitution requires the commission to review names and boundaries of constituencies at intervals of not less than eight years and not more than 12.
The council further proposed that the IEBC Selection Panel proceed with the process of picking new commissioners as envisaged in the gazette Notice 2641 of 2023.
"However, we call for an amendment of the First Schedule of the IEBC Act, 2011 to expand the selection panel to include one representative each from the two leading coalitions in Parliament so as to create a good working atmosphere," the council added.
The council was established as a society in 2005 as a national coalition of all major faith communities- Christians, Hindus and Muslims.
