Kibaki appoints IEBC team, new Ombudsman

NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 9 – President Mwai Kibaki has, in consultation with Prime Minister Raila Odinga, appointed Ahmed Issack Hassan to be the chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).

President Kibaki has also appointed Yusuf Abdulrahman Nzibo, Mohammed Alawi Hussun, Abdullahi M. Sharawe, Lilian Bokeeye Mahiri-Zaja, Thomas Letangule, Joyce Muthoni Wangai, Albert C. O. Bwire and Kule Galma Godana to be members of the IEBC.

This is in exercise of the powers confered on the President by Paragraph seven of the First Schedule to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Act, 2011, as read with section 5 of the Act.

Meanwhile, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 11(9) of the Commission on Administrative Justice Act 2011 as read with Section 9 of the Act, President Kibaki has in consultation with the Prime Minister Raila Odinga appointed Paul Otiende Amollo to be the chairman of the Commission on Administrative Justice.

The President also appointed Dr. Regina Gathoni Mwatha and Saadia Abdikadir Mohammed to be members of the Commission on Administrative Justice.

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