{"id":117928,"date":"2025-07-11T11:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/cj-koome-urges-ethekon-to-ensure-iebcs-independence\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T11:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:03:27","slug":"cj-koome-urges-ethekon-to-ensure-iebcs-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/cj-koome-urges-ethekon-to-ensure-iebcs-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"CJ Koome urges Ethekon to ensure IEBC\u2019s independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 11 \u2013 Chief Justice Martha \u00a0Koome has urged the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Ethekon to ensure the electoral body\u2019s independence, impartiality while undertaking duties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Koome, speaking after the swearing in ceremony at the Judiciary called on the newly appointed chairperson not to allow outside interference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are now the custodians of a process that has in the past defined the trajectory of our nation, for better or worse,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour work directly impacts the legitimacy of the government, the stability of our nation and the confidence of the people in the rule of law and democratic governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ethekon has been sworn in alongside six commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony followed President William Ruto\u2019s move to regularize the appointments via a corrected gazette notice, fulfilling a High Court directive issued on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The court had earlier flagged procedural flaws in the original appointments but ruled they were not serious enough to warrant nullification.<\/p>\n<p>In its ruling, the court stated that the President must \u201ccorrect the procedural anomalies\u201d and issue a fresh gazette notice in compliance with statutory requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Ethekon\u2019s assumption of office comes at a pivotal moment for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, with calls for wide-ranging reforms following the controversial 2022 elections and rising political momentum.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 11 \u2013 Chief Justice Martha \u00a0Koome has urged the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Ethekon to ensure the electoral body\u2019s independence, impartiality while undertaking duties. Koome, speaking after the swearing in ceremony at the Judiciary called on the newly appointed chairperson not to allow outside interference. \u201cYou are now the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}