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IN THE ELECTORAL CODE OF CONDUCT ENFORCEMENT COMMITTEE AT NAIROBI COMPLAINT NO. IEBC/ECCEC/BE/04/2025

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IEBC catalogue label: Complaint No. IEBC/ECCEC/BE/04/2025 — The Returning Officer, Kasipul Constituency .................... Complainant Vs Boyd Were Ong'ondo ....................................................... 1st Respondent Orange Democratic Movement Party ............................ 2nd Respondent

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Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission · Court Rulings
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The essential point

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The committee found that the campaign schedule could be changed only through all-candidate consensus, describing that approach as serving fairness, good order and peace and requiring every candidate to be present.

Evidence: Analysis, amendment by consensus; retained PDF physical p. 6 (OCR)

Why it matters

The decision treats harmonised campaign scheduling as a conflict-prevention tool where clashing political activities risk violence.

Evidence: Analysis, harmonised schedules; retained PDF physical p. 5 (OCR)

Open the key points and evidence
  1. The complaint asked whether a candidate could change a campaign schedule unilaterally.

    Issue for determination; retained PDF physical p. 4 (OCR)
  2. The committee linked the Electoral Code of Conduct to free and fair elections and political activity without fear, coercion, intimidation or reprisals.

    Analysis, Code objective; retained PDF physical p. 5 (OCR)
  3. It said schedules were harmonised to reduce clashes between political activities that could lead to violence in Kasipul.

    Analysis, harmonised schedules; retained PDF physical p. 5 (OCR)
  4. It accepted that a candidate could request a change but said an amendment required consensus among all candidates.

    Analysis, amendment by consensus; retained PDF physical p. 6 (OCR)
  5. The committee ordered all Kasipul by-election candidates to follow the harmonised campaign schedule.

    Order, harmonised schedule; retained PDF physical p. 6 (OCR)

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