By PATRICK LANG'ATMore by this AuthorThe electoral commission has defended its list of 47 county and 290 constituency returning officers after Nasa claimed the reshuffle was a plot to rig the election. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has, since Monday, spent its days on Twitter, sharing the list of the new returning officers, who were reshuffled from their 2013 postings, as 30 of them were promoted to the post of county returning officers. A Twitter user asked the commission to address the “issue of rigging plans detected in your posting officials from only one tribe to Western”. A national analysis gives (a) totally different picture,” the agency said in its response to the user. But the commission’s CEO Ezra Chiloba disputed the claim, saying it was guided by the principle that returning officers should not serve in their home areas.

Source: Daily Nation May 09, 2017 22:30 UTC