Resignation is a viable option for IEBC team

Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Issack Hassan (second right) addresses the media at the agency's offices in Nairobi on May 5, 2016. He is flanked by IEBC chief executive Ezra Chiloba (second left) and commissioners Kule Galma Godana and Thomas Letangule. The commissioners now face the option of resigning as Members of Parliament investigate how they conducted the 2013 elections. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP

Commissioners of Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) now face the option of resigning as Members of Parliament investigate how they conducted the 2013 elections.

A petition by Barasa Nyakuri to the Parliamentary Committee on Justice and Constitutional Affairs details how the IEBC led by Issack Hassan bungled the last elections ranging from failed technology to procurement scandal. These are the same allegations the opposition coalition Cord is planning to table before the select committee.