Religious leaders from the mainstream churches yesterday held a series of meetings with political party stalwarts and the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) officials in a bid to break the deadlock over calls to reconstitute the agency.
The Catholic Church and the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) met IEBC commissioners at commission’s Anniversary Towers headquarters, hours after holding a similar meeting with Jubilee leaders.
NCCK secretary general Peter Karanja, who spoke on behalf of the Church, urged Cord leaders to call off their planned weekly protests to give dialogue a chance. He said they had so far held successful discussions with Cord, Jubilee and IEBC, and was optimistic a way forward on the stalemate was in the offing.
Karanja said IEBC commissioners had given them their side of the story to counter the accusations levelled against them by Cord. He was accompanied by, among others, Catholic bishops Cornelius Korir and Zacchaeus Okoth.
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