Chief prosecutor orders Kenya police to investigate election officials
Nairobi — Kenya’s chief prosecutor has ordered the police and anti-corruption agency to investigate the country’s election commission for alleged "irregularities and illegalities" in the conduct of August’s annulled presidential poll. Director of public prosecutions Keriako Tobiko said the wide-ranging investigations into the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) must be completed within 21 days. A fresh presidential election between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga is due on October 26. In a letter sent Saturday to the heads of Kenya’s criminal investigations department and anti-corruption commission, Tobiko ordered, "thorough, comprehensive and expeditious investigations into the irregularities and illegalities found by the SCOK (Supreme Court of Kenya) to have been committed by the IEBC in relation to the Presidential Election." Tobiko wants police to establishing whether electoral or other criminal offences may have been committed by t...
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