The country is staring at a constitutional crisis should the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) fail to delimit boundaries.
Already, the delimitation of boundaries is overdue by over ten months. Experts are now warning that the 2027 general elections could fail to take place as scheduled if petitioners unhappy with IEBC's failure to conduct the now overdue exercise file cases in court.
This, they say could lead to political instability in the build-up to the high-stakes elections.
Constitutional lawyer Bobby Mkangi opines that while the lack of conducting the delimitation exercise may not lead to a nullification of the 2027 election results, the development may attract legal hurdles that could bar the holding of the elections. "Someone could move to court to block the elections on the basis that Kenyans do not have fair representation in the sense that they are still using the old 2012 boundaries, given that the delimitation exercise which could potentially lead to more constituencies and wards was never undertaken.
