Time-constrained Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has opted for written submissions from main political parties in a bid to resolve the ballot papers tender row.
It comes a day after Deputy President William Ruto maintained Jubilee will not participate in any meeting convened to deliberate on modalities of awarding ballot papers printing tender.
With hard-line position taken, the electoral agency has been thrown into a miasma of confusion over the next course of action to unlock the deadlock.
Ruto maintained it was the mandate of the commission to figure who to award the printing contract to.
He vowed the General Election would be held as scheduled regardless of pitfalls being experienced as a result of court rulings quashing the earlier tender awarded to Al Ghurair.
IEBC hopes written submission by parties will oil the process of identifying another firm to print the presidential ballot papers — and save time which they don’t even have.
It emerged yesterday that the Dubai-based printing firm among those to be considered in the direct award of the emotive tender for production of presidential ballots.
IEBC chief executive officer Ezra Chiloba, argued that given the time left it beats logic to subject the tendering process to rigorist bureaucracies.
