| Submit your comments on this article |
| Africa Horn |
| Clashes rage in Kenya as court ponders election delay |
| 2017-10-25 |
| [PRESSTV] Kenyan police have clashed with protesters in the capital Nairobi as calls increase on the country’s Supreme Court to delay a controversial rerun of presidential election, which is slated for October 26. Police officials said on Tuesday that they fired tear gas to disperse a small group of people who were protesting in downtown Nairobi. The officials said the confrontation, which occurred amid bustling traffic, was not serious and that coppers fired blanks. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... clouds of tear gas forced some city workers and passers-by to hurry away from the area. There was no report of potential casualties. Rights group say some 67 people have been rubbed out by police forces since the results of the August 8 presidential election were declared. President Uhuru Kenyatta won that vote but Kenya’s Supreme Court annulled the results over irregularities in the electronic vote process. Opposition candidate Raila Odinga, who had challenged the original vote, has called on his followers to boycott a rerun set for Thursday, saying irregularities still persist and people who helped the government tamper with the results have not been sacked from the election watchdog. |
| Posted by:Fred |