{"id":429903,"date":"2017-10-18T15:01:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/18\/kenya-election-official-roselyn-akombe-flees-to-us\/"},"modified":"2017-10-18T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:01:39","slug":"kenya-election-official-roselyn-akombe-flees-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/18\/kenya-election-official-roselyn-akombe-flees-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya election official Roselyn Akombe flees to US"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A senior member of Kenya\u2019s electoral commission (IEBC) has fled to the US amid death threats ahead of next week\u2019s presidential election re-run.<\/p>\n

Roselyn Akombe said the IEBC was under political \u201csiege\u201d, unable to reach consensus or take any decisions.<\/p>\n

The IEBC said it regretted her decision to quit, while its chairman conceded that he could not guarantee that the poll would be credible.<\/p>\n

Last week, opposition leader Raila Odinga pulled out of the vote.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court annulled the result of the original 8 August poll, when current President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared winner, after finding irregularities and illegalities.<\/p>\n

Image copyright Reuters Image caption President Kenyatta has called on the nation to pray for peace<\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC Newsday interview from New York, Ms Akombe recalled the murder of the election commission\u2019s IT head, Chris Msando, before the August poll.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll be suicidal to think that nothing will happen to you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have never felt the kind of fear that I felt in my own country,\u201d Ms Akombe told the BBC.<\/p>\n

Can the election proceed? <\/strong><\/p>\n

In a statement, Ms Akombe said she had agonised over the decision to leave the IEBC because \u201cthe commission in its current state can surely not guarantee a credible election\u201d.<\/p>\n

Media captionRoselyn Akombe: \u2018It would be suicidal to stay\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a very high likelihood that the mistakes that some of the presiding officers made during the last election will be repeated,\u201d she told the BBC.<\/p>\n

She said IEBC members had been voting along partisan lines, without discussing different issues on merit.<\/p>\n

Commissioners and other IEBC personnel were facing intimidation by political actors and protesters, Ms Akombe said.<\/p>\n

She added that the death threats were anonymous threats, and she had been put under pressure to resign.<\/p>\n

She said she did not \u201cfeel safe enough to be able to go home\u201d in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n

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