NAIROBI: Kenya’s chief prosecutor has directed the department of criminal investigations and the anti-corruption commission to investigate election board officials over possible offences in the invalidated Aug 8 presidential vote, he said in a letter.
Keriako Tobiko, the director of public prosecutions, also asked the two agencies to examine allegations that two senior opposition officials gained illegal access to servers of the election commission as the poll results were being tallied.
The Supreme Court annulled the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sept 1, citing irregularities and illegalities in the transmission of results, and ordered a repeat election within 60 days.
In its detailed ruling last Wednesday, the court said it had not found evidence of individual culpability among election board officials, adding the failings were institutional. Tobiko said in the letter on Sunday that the court not finding individual culpability did not stop him from carrying out an investigation.
Published in Dawn, September 25th, 2017
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