“Our election is expensive because we do not trust each other,” Mr Chris Msando, IEBC acting ICT director, told the Nation. PROCUREMENT ISSUESThe new IEBC came with election laws that required a technology-based voting that the Odinga team believes will curb rigging. The 14,552 candidates vying for various seats in the election will be 1,776 more than the 12,776 that offered themselves for election in March 2013. President Kenyatta beat Mr Odinga by 833,887 votes in the 2013 poll, getting 6,174,433 against the ODM leader’s 5,340,546. With 50.5 per cent of the total votes cast, Mr Kenyatta escaped a run-off with only about 8,000 votes.

Source: Daily Nation June 25, 2017 18:45 UTC