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A Lobby group from North Eastern now wants the Independent and Boundaries Commission IEBC to do delimitation of boundaries and not through bbi prosopal.
The loby group drawn from Wajir County says they were not impressed in the manner in which the ongoing constitution amendments bill has proposed additional 70 constiuencies across the country.
“We as Coalition of Civil Societies in Northern Kenya have commended the Judiciary for safeguarding the rule of Law and protecting the cardinal rights of all Kenyans from the Political class bent on using unorthodox means to sell the BBI,” said spokesperson of the caucus Abdirahman Abdile.
“We urge the IEBC, being the only organ mandated by the Constitution to carry delimitation and review of electoral boundaries to embark on it before the required time limit of August this year”,Abdile added
If IEBC fails to play the delimitation role, the group expressed fears that many areas would end suffering as some of the constiuencies are so big that sometimes they are left out in government developments.
In particular, they said Wajir South which is about 23,000 square kilometers making it larger than Central, Nairobi, and western regions combined should be split.
“We have some of the biggest constiuencies and if something is not done most residents will suffer,” he said.
According to Abdile the last time the constituency was split was in 1948 when Wajir District then was split into South and North.
North was later split 4 times yet while south remains a single Constituency namely, Wajir east, Wajir west, Tarbaj and Eldas constituencies.
At the same time, the caucus urged the new Wajir governor Ahmed Mukhtar to focus on making the county better than he found it.
“We equally have noted the developments taking shape in the gubernatorial position of Wajir County that has led to change in the highest office executed. We hope and wait to see the changes effected will yield a difference and expect results realised for the good of the County”, said Abdile.
