Yet to speak publicly on the claims and counter-claims is the chief executive of the commission Marjan Hussein Marjan who took over after his predecessor Ezra Chiloba was blamed for its failings in 2017...
After announcing his own dismissal on social media in October 2018 former Commission CEO Ezra Chiloba's rehabilitation began in September 2021 with his appointment to head the Communications Authority of Kenya...
Among those censured – including former IEBC chief executive Ezra Chiloba the six other commissioners including the chair Wafula Chebukati and senior staffers notably IT team leader James Muhati and head of the legal division Praxedes Tororey – was the French security printing company IDEMIA which supplied the technology for the elections...
'At one point [Jubilee] came back to me and said "I'm told that we are not opposed to [the IEBC's Chief Executive Officer Ezra Chiloba] leaving as long as you have consensus"...
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The party's raft of requirements calls for the sacking of Ezra Chiloba the IEBC's chief executive officer together with 11 other officials deemed responsible for 'processing results through illegal forms' that tainted the results as well as the sacking of OT-Morpho and Al Ghurair the firms that supplied the ICT and ballot papers (AC Vol 58 No 18 The next trial of strength)...
But a memo sent on 7 September by Chairman Chebukati raising critical questions with the IEBC's Chief Executive Ezra Chiloba pointed to sharp differences among its top officials...
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In the vacuum before the ruling was published the IEBC went to war with itself with the Chair Wanyonyi Wafula Chebukati and the Chief Executive Ezra Chiloba furiously leaking against each other...
Despite having stood together throughout the painful process since January apparently united non-executive Chairman Wafula Chebukati threw his Chief Executive Officer Ezra Chiloba and several other senior leaders to the wolves as soon as the court judgement was issued...
They include the sacking of several top officials at the IEBC including Chief Executive Ezra Chiloba and his deputy Betty Nyabuto and the heads of IT voter registration and the legal team...
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Chebukati and the Chief Executive Officer Ezra Chiloba...