Chiloba sues Chebukati, two IEBC commissioners

Ezra Chiloba has filed contempt of court proceedings against the Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC).

He wants IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati and the two remaining commissioners; Abdi Guliye and Bobu Molu, jailed for six months for denying him access to his office.

Chiloba also says that Chebukati and his team purported to suspend him in a manner intended to otherwise render the decision of the court ineffectual.

He wants the court to set aside the decision made by the commission in a letter that suspended him for three more months.

He further wants the court to issue a 30-day notice to the trio to personally attend court and show cause why they should not be held in contempt for blocking him from resuming work.

Through lawyer Andrew Wandabwa, Chiloba says that he stands to suffer immeasurable prejudice and irreversible violation of his constitutional freedoms, legal rights and due process unless the court hears his petition.

“The commissioners and chairman’s actions, conduct, endeavors of sending the applicant on further purported suspension in effect removes him from his employment and are without any basis in law, malicious, high-handed, capricious and calculated to injure him” the petition reads.