I think that proposal will not work for Kenya.
The approach we had is political parties should pick the committee that will eventually identify commissioners.
If every party - and we have so many parties, some do not have elected members, from MCA all the way to the President - have the chance to pick a commissioner, there will be chaos.
How would you give such a party an opportunity to elect members of IEBC?
What criteria will they use to give all these parties opportunity to pick preferred commissioners?
It's important that Kenyans agree.
Currently, there is an election panel that comprises reputable church leaders and leaders who have been in these issues for quite some time.
What they should suggest is that they should let the legal bodies like LSK and the Judiciary have a representative.
NCCK and even NGOs and all bodies whose interests are geared towards the elections should come up with representatives.
When the elections are done, there are dissatisfactions with the IEBC . So, I don't know which formula is ideal.
Even the formula Amos Wako is proposing, at the end of the day, people will again find problems with it.
What I know is that there is no way teams can pick referees.
If you are a player, you are a player, and you should focus on playing.
For the people who will identify referees, the referees must go through expert opinion and a person who is fair in the manner in which they are raising issues should carry the day.
The IEBC chairperson, we have always proposed, should be a lawyer. Being a lawyer, he should help us look at the legal implications that we might have.
But maybe we should have more lawyers in the commission. What we saw last time was embarrassing.
You cannot have a commissioner who cannot express himself. We should have commissioners whose integrity is beyond reproach.
We need elections that can be trusted, but however good one tries, there will always be issues. We have positions where people accepted the results and we moved on.
But the biggest problem we have is people not accepting the results.
Former Mumias East MP spoke to the Star
