{"id":407746,"date":"2017-08-01T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T10:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/01\/kenyan-election-it-head-chris-msando-found-dead\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T10:14:12","slug":"kenyan-election-it-head-chris-msando-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/01\/kenyan-election-it-head-chris-msando-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan election IT head Chris Msando found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">&#13;<br \/>\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.4.4--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The man in charge of Kenya\u2019s computerised voting system has been found dead just days before the 8 August elections.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Msando, an electoral commission IT manager, had gone missing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no doubt he was tortured and murdered,\u201d said IEBC chairperson Wafula Chebukati.<\/p>\n<p>Tension is high as the presidential election is expected to be a close race between incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta and long-time opponent Raila Odinga.<\/p>\n<p>Police said on Monday that the bodies of Mr Msando and an unidentified woman had been found in the Kikuyu area on the outskirts of Nairobi and taken to the city mortuary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only question in our mind is who [killed him] and why he was killed a few days to elections,\u201d Mr Chebukati said.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan newspaper The Star reports that Mr Msando\u2019s body was found with one arm missing.<\/p>\n<p>Some fear there could be violent clashes between rival supporters after the result is announced, with the losers refusing to accept defeat.<\/p>\n<p>However, few expect the type of violence which killed more than 1,200 people in ethnic, post-election violence 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Following the clashes, the International Criminal Court charged President Kenyatta and his deputy with instigating violence, but the charges have since been dropped due to a lack of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The government has denied ICC accusations that its witnesses had been intimidated to prevent them from testifying.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; The man in charge of Kenya\u2019s computerised voting system has been found dead just days before the 8 August elections. Chris Msando, an electoral commission IT manager, had gone missing on Friday. \u201cThere was no doubt he was tortured and murdered,\u201d said IEBC chairperson Wafula Chebukati. Tension is high as the presidential election is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":407747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenyan election IT head Chris Msando found dead - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/01\/kenyan-election-it-head-chris-msando-found-dead\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenyan election IT head Chris Msando found dead - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"&#013; The man in charge of Kenya\u2019s computerised voting system has been found dead just days before the 8 August elections. 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