IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati faces the toughest test of his life as a divided Kenya heads to the repeat election with inadequate and unreliable poll officials in the NASA strongholds. The first option the IEBC top brass is mulling over is the postponement of Thursday’s repeat presidential vote in the opposition bastions. The move follows days of sustained attacks on IEBC officials at training centres in parts of Siaya, Kisumu, Vihiga, Homa Bay and Migori counties. The four-day trainings across the country were slashed to two in Nyanza, with hundreds of poll officials giving the exercise a wide berth. The IEBC is also toying with the idea of deploying tight security and poll officials who have been trained in other counties.

Source: The Star October 23, 2017 09:33 UTC