Saturday, December 3, 2022 –Investigations into the conduct of the embattled four IEBC Commissioners will go on even if they resigned today.
National Assembly Deputy Speaker, Gladys Shollei, through a statement on Friday, December 2, stated that the ugly events witnessed at the Bomas of Kenya on August 9 and subsequent days cannot go unpunished.
President William Ruto’s close ally argued that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission IEBC officials who dissented the outcome of the last election must be held accountable of their own actions which they have not been able to defend.
“The Tribunal must discharge its duty to interrogate their conduct and report on the facts. Kenyans deserve to know why they engaged in grave misconduct during the last election,” Shollei said.
Shollei, therefore, reasoned that the Tribunal formed by the head of State on Friday December 2 will summon them whether they are in office or not.
This, she argued, will help unravel the truth of what exactly happened prior to William Ruto’s victory.
According to article 251 of the Constitution, the tribunal looking into the matter will make appropriate recommendations to the President who will then decide their final fate.
The National Assembly Deputy Speaker and Uasin Gishu Women Representative further noted that resigning doesn’t exonerated a crime.
“Resignation cannot extinguish the duty of the Tribunal constituted to investigate IEBC commissioners,” she stated.
Her remark is coming barely two days after one of the commissioners, Justus Nyang’aya, officially quit service.