The Independent and Electoral Boundaries Commission has appealed last Friday's High Court decision that terminated the tender for the printing of the presidential ballot papers. The commission wants the Appellate Court to hear the matter urgently and to set aside the judgment in its entirety. On Friday, Justices Joel Ngugi, George Odunga and John Mativo, held that the electoral agency failed to ensure there was public participation in the tendering process. In their appeal, IEBC says the judges made a mistake in finding that public participation is a mandatory precondition to direct procurement. The Commission argued that the court imposed on NASA a constitutional threshold of public participation which does not even exist.

Source: The Star July 10, 2017 14:48 UTC