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How ECK bosses misused election cash
Nairobi :: Kenya | 7 months ago
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The report, based on an analysis of government audit reports, says that the ECK grossly mismanaged funds it was allocated. The Controller and Auditor-General took issue with how ECK spent Sh1.93 billion of the Sh15.8 billion it was given between 1991...
Tags: ECK
Kivuitu seeks to block new poll team
Nairobi :: Kenya | 10 months ago
Credibility Also sought is an order to compel the Government to continue paying the disbanded ECK staff their salaries. The former commissioners say they are entitled to their salary as they were not sent home according to provisions of the Constitution. They maintain...
Tags: ECK, disbanded eck
Crisis talks for Kenya coalition
Nairobi :: Kenya | 11 months ago
Credibility The pair agreed to work together last year to end clashes over disputed polls which left some 1,500 people dead. Some Kenyans fear political bickering could lead to renewed violence. The BBC's Josphat Makori in Nairobi says tension has been brewing between...
Tags: transition team, Raila Odinga, ECK
Kenya MPs disband poll commission
Nairobi :: Kenya | 11 months ago
Credibility Last week, some 600 electoral staff went on hunger strike, angered at the possible axing of their jobs. Amendments were then made to the bill to ensure that some staff would be redeployed to the public service. Meanwhile, Kenya's leaders have until the...
Tags: Emilio Mwai Kibaki, Parliamentary Select Committee, Kenya, prime minister, Raila Odinga, Special Tribunal, parliament adjourned, ECK
Does the media need policing?
Nairobi :: Kenya | 11 months ago
Credibility Scores of journalists and activists have been arrested in Nairobi during protests over new laws they say will curtail press freedom. Media practioners claim the Kenya Communications bill gives the government immerse control over the media, allowing it...
Tags: Raila Odinga, Electoral Commission of Kenya, ECK, minister raila, prime minister
Kenya requires real leadership
Nairobi :: Kenya | 11 months ago
Credibility Events of the past few weeks have cast doubts on the ability and commitment of the Coalition Government to drive the reform agenda. Citizens are becoming disillusioned as the Government exhibits a sense of paralysis attributable to lack of direction...
Tags: Kenya, ECK, Kibaki, Raila Odinga, president kibaki, karua published
House puts on hold Bill on fate of the ECK
Kericho :: Kenya | 11 months ago
Credibility The Government was compelled to put on hold the introduction of a Bill that seeks to disband the Electoral Commission of Kenya until Wednesday. Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka told the House that the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2008, will...
Tags: ECK, Electoral Commission of Kenya
Most Kenyans want ECK disbanded
Nyanza :: Rwanda | about 1 year ago
Credibility However, sharp divisions emerge regionally in respect to those opposed to the commissioners’ departure. While 61 per cent of Central Province residents would like the commissioners to remain, less than 11 per cent of those in Nyanza and Western do. ...
Tags: ECK
Cabinet moves to overhaul ECK
Justice :: IL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The eight-member committee met and studied part of the blueprint crafted by its technical team of Mr Gichira Kibara and Mr Karooli Omondi. They agreed on amending the Constitution to provide for the disbandment of the ECK and to repeal the National Assembly...
Tags: constitution, president, elect, constitutional, ECK
ECK adverts just a waste of money
Nairobi :: Kenya | about 1 year ago
Credibility Anyone would think from the advertisements the Electoral Commission of Kenya has been placing in the press that the last General Election went off without a hitch. Do the commissioners think Kenyans are easily fooled? I am disturbed to hear ECK chairman...
Tags: ECK
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