I think these are some of the things that MPs should be judged on. What lessons are there to be learnt and how can the ECK appointments be made? My take is that ECK members should be appointed for one term under a clear legislation (the current one is clear hopefully to all) and not a gentleman's understanding.

Kivuitu has already said it all that these politicians should not cry when they slept on the job. After all when these "gentlemen" are not there,will the "understanding" still be  valid?

Jaribu,I concur with you. The fact that the commisioners enjoy a constitutional term of 5 years means that their terms shall always end just before a General election. If the argument that you can not change them just before an election was to hold,it then means that they would have to die in office for them to be replaced.

In any case the same guys pushing for his contract renewal are of the view that Old men have no business in leading and that is one of their campaign strong point,i.e. Kibaki is too old to be relected. The last time I checked,Kivuitu was not "young". So unless they defined to us how old is old,Kivuitu remains a candidate for retirement