The National Election Commission (NEC) has declared 22nd December 2024 for the election to kick off in the country.
National Election Commission Chairperson, Professor Abednego Akok Kacuol, said the national exercise will run from December 2024 through February 2025.
“This declaration comes as a result of a meeting held this morning by the commission, and they unanimously agreed to announce the date for the election as 22nd December 2024,” Abenego said.
The ever-jolly NEC Chairperson defended his commission’s decision as a prerogative vested in him by the constitution.
“The National Election Act 2012 amended 2023 section 6, article 1, says where an election is to be held, the commission shall determine and announce the date in accordance with the constitution and publish in the official gazette or two Newspapers with nationwide circulation and on the commission’s website and mass media, a notice of the holding of the election at least six months before the date of the election and this exactly what we are doing,” he said
Prof. Abenego said his commission established offices in all the states for voter’s registration to start in July.
The hope of conducting a democratic and transparent election in the country hangs in the balance as actors in the 2018 Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCISS) have not declared their stance due to the Tumaini Initiative ongoing in the Kenyan Capital, Nairobi.