Africa-Press – Kenya. Senior counsel Zehrabanu Janmohamed has said that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has failed to redeem itself after five years.
She said that the IEBC defied Supreme Court orders since 2017 to put the its house in order.
“For five years you did nothing, the Supreme Court told you in October 2017, you can’t do this, you do nothing. You amend in April 2017, you leave it at that, there has been hardly any amendments,” she said.
Janmohamed was appearing for John Kamau, the second petitioner in the presidential petitioner.
In her submission, the senior counsel noted that for the electoral process to be deemed to have been conducted in strict compliance of the law, it must meet the constitutional threshold of being credible, transparent, verifiable and accurate.
“IEBC is an Independent commission but they have to work within the ambit of the Constitution,” she said.
On Wednesday, a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Martha Koome presided over the hearing of the presidential petition.
The hearing started off with lawyers and senior counsels from the Azimio presidential candidate Raila Odinga who, the main petitioner.
The apex court on Tuesday held a pre-trial where it laid down house rules to be observed throughout the hearing.
The court consolidated all seven presidential petitions into one.
Two of other petitions were struck out.
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