Wafula Chebukati must be neutral referee or take his side

IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati. [David Gichuru, Standard]

With less than 9 days to Kenya's most crucial elections, the casual attitude of a section of the electoral commission towards the exercise is deeply worrying.

Two Venezuelan nationals with alleged expired passports entered the country with election materials but the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission brushed off the incident. With each misstep, a leading presidential candidate comes out loudly in support of IEBC and removes all doubt that he could be a de facto co-chair of an independent commission.