Kenya: Credible Kenya Repeat Election Not Possible, Says Roselyn Akombe

Former Kenya election commissioner Roselyn Akombe has said that political interference has rendered the electoral agency so dysfunctional that any hope of the commission carrying out a credible repeat election on October 26 is impossible.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Sunday Nation from New Jersey on Friday, Dr Roselyn Akombe, who recently quit citing frustrations from fellow commissioners and senior secretariat staff, painted a picture of a statutory body that was not just at war with itself but also one that has become a poster child for political interference.

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