PRESIDING OFFICERSThe presiding officers and their deputies will be employed on a 13-day contract at the rate of Sh2, 000 and Sh1, 800 a day, respectively. The election staff this year is double the 95,000 deployed in the 2013 polls, an IEBC security plan shows. We will take no nonsense from anybody irrespective of political affiliation,” Mr Boinnet told participants during the launch of a manual on election security. On Thursday, five Court of Appeal judges will rule whether a fresh tender for the printing of the presidential election ballot papers will be required. BACKUPSBoth the ballot papers and 45,000 Kenya Integrated Elections Management Systems (Kiems) kits will soon be sent to the various electoral zones.

Source: Daily Nation July 19, 2017 21:56 UTC