By Lydiah Okeyo
The IEBC dispute resolution committee has today, Monday given its verdict on the football star McDonald Mariga’s case, freeing him to fly the jubilee party flag in the Kibra parliamentary by-election.
Mariga petitioned the independent electoral and boundaries commission after Kibra returning officer Beatrice Muli invalidated his nomination citing lack of his name in the voters’ register.
Mariga will now face other candidates from different parties including ODM’s Imran Okoth who is viewed as his main competitor .this comes even as a section of Jubilee MPs accused party secretary-general Raphael Tuju of working behind the scenes to frustrate Mariga’s candidature.
The Kibra parliamentary seat fell vacant following the demise of the former MP Ken Okoth.