Vice-chair Juliana Cherera and commissioners Francis Wanderi and Justus Nyang'aya resigned after Ruto's Kenya Kwanza coalition in parliament launched an investigative tribunal into allegations of misconduct during the election and suspended them (Dispatches 5/12/22 Ruto hits back at dissident electoral commissioners)...
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IEBC commissioners Juliana Cherera Justus Nyang'aya Irene Masit and Francis Wanderi will remain out of office pending investigation by a tribunal chaired by Justice Aggrey Muchelule...
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However Ruto's Kenya Kwanza alliance is in the process of launching parliamentary petitions to kick out the four dissident commissioners Juliana Cherera Justus Nyang'aya Francis Wanderi and Irene Masit on charges that they violated the constitution and their oaths of office...
The four dissident commissioners Cherera Irene Masit Francis Wanderi and Justus Nyang'aya dismiss Chebukati's claims accusing him of 'unorthodox actions that turned the commission into a one-man show and which subverted the constitution electoral laws and the will of the people'...
The four dissenting electoral commissioners – Vice-Chair Juliana Cherera and commissioners Irene Masit Francis Wanderi and Justus Nyang'aya – face allegations from IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati that amount to treason and are likely to seek their own legal representation...