Kenya: IEBC's Ezra Chiloba Should Resign
September 12 2017 By Abiodun Giwa
Ezra Chiloba Courtesy: DailyNation)
NASA, Kenya's opposition party in the cancelled presidential election results in has said it will not partake in the new election scheduled for October.
Reason? If Ezra Chiloba remains as the chief executive officer of the Independent Electoral and Boundary Commission, charged with conduct of elections in the country.
As the CEO who was in charge of the election results cancelled by the Supreme Court, observers had expected that the Chiloba should have resigned, as his participation in the next election would be under questions, because the cancelled election was said to have been rigged.
Amid the unsavory development concerning the election results and the hearing at the Supreme Court, news reports from Kenya have been consistent that the I.E.B.C has not allowed the opposition party scrutinize the commission's servers, to allay widespread fears that the election was hacked.
Rather than doing the needful by resigning and allow Kenya to move ahead, Chiloba has instead come out with a defense of the election of August 8. He said the election only had minor errors and the the court should not have cancelled the election. He has guts to challenge the court's ruling, without explaining why he has not allowed the opposition party to see the commission's servers.
According to a report in the Daily Nation, Chiloba said that the election was not hacked and that there was no attempt to hack, based on information available to him as the CEO. Is that why he has disobeyed court's instruction that the opposition be allowed to examine the servers?
Kenya is definitely bigger than one man like Chiloba. Kenya must have a peaceful election and Chiloba must not stand between the incumbent ruling party and the opposition party taking party in the election by Chiloba's decision to remain at the top of the commission as the CEO, when he should be out without unnecessarily holding his country to ransom.
Chiloba must go. Kenyans deserve to live and not die because of electing their leaders. President Uhuru Kenyatta must ensure that his party and the opposition examine the IEBC's servers toward ensuring free and fair election in October, ans an election that the international community will respect. And that should begin by respecting the court order that the servers be examined, against Chiloba's lack of respect for the court.
Reason? If Ezra Chiloba remains as the chief executive officer of the Independent Electoral and Boundary Commission, charged with conduct of elections in the country.
As the CEO who was in charge of the election results cancelled by the Supreme Court, observers had expected that the Chiloba should have resigned, as his participation in the next election would be under questions, because the cancelled election was said to have been rigged.
Amid the unsavory development concerning the election results and the hearing at the Supreme Court, news reports from Kenya have been consistent that the I.E.B.C has not allowed the opposition party scrutinize the commission's servers, to allay widespread fears that the election was hacked.
Rather than doing the needful by resigning and allow Kenya to move ahead, Chiloba has instead come out with a defense of the election of August 8. He said the election only had minor errors and the the court should not have cancelled the election. He has guts to challenge the court's ruling, without explaining why he has not allowed the opposition party to see the commission's servers.
According to a report in the Daily Nation, Chiloba said that the election was not hacked and that there was no attempt to hack, based on information available to him as the CEO. Is that why he has disobeyed court's instruction that the opposition be allowed to examine the servers?
Kenya is definitely bigger than one man like Chiloba. Kenya must have a peaceful election and Chiloba must not stand between the incumbent ruling party and the opposition party taking party in the election by Chiloba's decision to remain at the top of the commission as the CEO, when he should be out without unnecessarily holding his country to ransom.
Chiloba must go. Kenyans deserve to live and not die because of electing their leaders. President Uhuru Kenyatta must ensure that his party and the opposition examine the IEBC's servers toward ensuring free and fair election in October, ans an election that the international community will respect. And that should begin by respecting the court order that the servers be examined, against Chiloba's lack of respect for the court.
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