{"id":2966,"date":"2020-02-21T15:33:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2020-02-21T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:33:26","slug":"we-have-no-money-for-referendum-says-iebc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/we-have-no-money-for-referendum-says-iebc","title":{"rendered":"We have no money for referendum, says IEBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has no budget for a referendum.<\/p>\n<p>This despite the push for the country to go for a vote mid this year to change the constitution.IEBC has not factored a referendum in its 2020\/2021 budget, acting Deputy CEO Obadiah Keitany said yesterday.\u201cThere is no provision for a referendum in our budget. Until we get writs from the speaker, we cannot proceed to budget for a referendum,\u201d Mr Keitany said.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke when he appeared before the National Assembly Justice and Legal Affairs Committee that is considering the 2020\/2021 Budget Policy Statement.Politicians supporting the Building Bridges Initiative are pushing for the vote to change the structure of governance.\u00a0In the meantime, IEBC is seeking Sh3.9 billion to clear its pending bills ahead of the upcoming boundary review.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also wants parliament to reinstate Sh340 million reallocated in the last supplementary budget.Keitany said budget cuts had affected preparations for the boundaries review, which could run into headwinds if the money is not reinstated to its budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe accumulated debts after the 2017 elections. We may not start boundaries delimitation because suppliers will not cooperate with us,\u201d said Keitany.The electoral body has already begun capacity building for its staff ahead of the exercise expected to start mid this year.Keitany said IEBC has already committed Sh160 million towards training of staff and purchase of materials, but the money is only a fraction of what it requires for its preparations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has no budget for a referendum. This despite the push for the country to go for a vote mid this year to change the constitution.IEBC has not factored a referendum in its 2020\/2021 budget, acting Deputy CEO Obadiah Keitany said yesterday.\u201cThere is no provision for a referendum in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[1611,617,313],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-2020-2021-budget","tag-iebc","tag-referendum"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We have no money for referendum, says IEBC - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has no budget for a referendum.This despite the push for the country to go for a vote mid\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/we-have-no-money-for-referendum-says-iebc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We have no money for referendum, says IEBC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has no budget for a referendum.This despite the push for the country to go for a vote mid\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/we-have-no-money-for-referendum-says-iebc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-21T15:33:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/02\/iebc_says_it_has_no_5e4edaeedbe78.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/we-have-no-money-for-referendum-says-iebc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/we-have-no-money-for-referendum-says-iebc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"We have no money for referendum, says IEBC\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-21T15:33:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/we-have-no-money-for-referendum-says-iebc\"},\"wordCount\":252,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/we-have-no-money-for-referendum-says-iebc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/02\/iebc_says_it_has_no_5e4edaeedbe78.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2020\/2021 budget\",\"IEBC\",\"Referendum\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/we-have-no-money-for-referendum-says-iebc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/we-have-no-money-for-referendum-says-iebc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/we-have-no-money-for-referendum-says-iebc\",\"name\":\"We have no money for referendum, says IEBC - 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