Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Wafula Chebukati and six other commissioners face arrest after they were sued for contempt of court.
Activist Okiya Omtatah on Wednesday filed the contempt case against Mr Chebukati and his Commissioners over the termination of continuous voter registration contrary to court orders.
In the suit, Mr Omtatah argues that the Commission disobeyed the court by stopping the registration exercise despite making an earlier undertaking that it would continue listing voters until June 10 2017.
“It is the commission that gave an undertaking in open court, which was recorded by the judge, that they would carry on with the registration until June 10, being 60 days before the election. They cannot, therefore, go against their word without being punished," Mr Omtatah stated.
In February, Justice Enoch Chacha, while ruling in a case filed by Mr Omtatah, explained that IEBC was only allowed stop the mass voter registration exercise but directed the body to press on with the voter registration at constituency level until May 17.
IEBC, however, suspended the process on March 7 indicating that they needed time for inspection and verification of biometric data of the registered voters.
Mr Omtatah now wants the IEBC Chairman and the Commissioners to be cited for contempt and the gazette notice stopping the continuous voter registration be declared null and void.
He also wants the suspension stopped by the court pending the hearing and determination of his case.
IEBC has in the past few weeks been locked in a series of court battles especially those involving the award of tenders of supplying election material.
