CORD has suffered a double blow after the House rejected calls by its members to present a minority report alongside one that had dismissed a petition calling for the removal of nine Independent Boundaries and Electoral Commission (IEBC) commissioners.
The House whose majority is the Jubilee Coalition went ahead to debate and vote on the main report, with National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi ruling that the dissenting views of the members had been well captured in the report tabled by the House Justice and Legal Affairs Committee.
The ruling by the Speaker opened the way for a heated debate on the main report, with CORD MPs standing their ground that the committee, chaired by Samuel Chepkonga, had made an error in dismissing the petition by Wafula Buke.
The petition had called for the removal of nine commissioner of the electoral body, among them Chairman Isaak Hassan.
Nine grounds
Buke had presented nine grounds for the removal of the commissioners, chief among them being that they had demonstrated incurable incompetence in their conduct during the 2013 General Election.
Outspoken Majority Leader Adan Duale supported the committee report and faulted the opposition in its call for a referendum to disband the IEBC.
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