The Kenyan cabinet on Tuesday approved an independent probe team's report into last year's presidential elections which sparked countrywide violence and led to the death of 1,000 people and left scores of others injured.
A statement from President Mwai Kibaki's office said the 42-member cabinet which met early Tuesday and adopted the report by the Independent Review Commission report on the 2007 polls and appointed a 10-member committee to implement the recommendations.
The committee, which includes President Kibaki and the Prime Minister Raila Odinga, is expected to make a report within 14 days.
A statement said the cabinet agreed to take a common approach in the implementation of the changes recommended in the report "due to the importance of electoral reforms in the prosperity of the country."
"The cabinet underlined the importance of providing the way forward on the report and the need to address the issues that came up under agenda 4 of the Serena talks," the statement said.
The report is expected to be tabled in parliament on Wednesday.
In his recommendations, Johann Kriegler, a retired South African judge who led the inquiry, called for the overhaul of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) in order to instill professionalism in the Kenya's electoral process.
He also proposed the review of constituency boundaries, creation of an election tribunal and strict regulation of political parties, the media and the civil society over their engagement in the poll process.
A section of ministers, including Prime Minister Odinga, has insisted that the ECK should be disbanded while another group led by Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka said that the exit should be preceded by electoral reforms.
"The cabinet agreed on the need to have a united approach in the implementation of the changes made to Kenya's electoral process due to the importance of electoral reforms in the prosperity of the country."
The development came as a section of the civil society called for the establishment of a transitional panel to hold brief for the embattled ECK.
Under the banner of Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice (KPTJ),the group insisted that the current commissioners must leave office in line with the recommendations of the Kriegler report.
The cabinet also stressed the need to address the long-term issues that came up under Agenda 4 of the National Peace and Dialogue talks at Serena hotel earlier in the year. Agenda Four deals with issues relating of the post-election violence.
Over 1,000 people lost their lives in the violence and a further 350,000 were displaced from their homes after the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) disputed the results of the December 2007 General Election that gave President Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU) a second term in office.
Source:Xinhua
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