Consultant seeking to detect polling fraud for Kenya opposition deported before polls
Nairobi — Four days before hotly contested presidential elections here, a US political consultant working for Kenya’s opposition leader said a dozen plainclothes policemen barged into his Nairobi apartment, handcuffed him and put him into the rear of a hatchback car. For hours, John Aristotle Phillips, chief executive of Washington, DC-based political-technology firm Aristotle International and adviser to the campaign of opposition candidate Raila Odinga, was driven around the dark streets of the capital, according to Mr Phillips and his colleague Andreas Katsouris, who was in a separate car. Both were then taken to the airport and, along with another colleague, deported. Kenyan authorities said the men were expelled because they didn’t have the correct visas. Government officials declined to comment further. Mr Phillips said he and his co-worker had entered the country on tourist visas and applied for business visas once in the country. As initial vote tallies on Wednesday showed t...
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