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Too much deceit in IEBC standoff

What exactly happened at State House when President Uhuru Kenyatta hosted visiting Korean President Park Geun-hye and invited Opposition leaders Raila Odinga and Moses Wetang'ula to join him for a luncheon on Tuesday?

Put in another way, for the time Uhuru, Ruto, Raila and Wetang'ula met, what ‘agreement’ was reached on how, not if or when, to overhaul the national polls body? I say ‘how’ because both sides appear set to act on the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, but the stalemate seems to be three-fold: If all or a few of the commissioners should go home; whether to adopt something like the 1997 Inter-Party Parliamentary Group strategy, and who will eventually take credit for dismantling IEBC.

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