Koki Muli: Kenya’s elections ranks among the most expensive in the world, with staffing costs emerging as the single biggest driver of expenditure. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) deploys personnel across more than 46,000 polling stations nationwide, hiring hundreds of thousands of temporary election officials who work for only a few days but must be recruited, trained, deployed and paid. The scale of logistics, allowances, transport, training and security coordination