Kenya's chief prosecutor orders investigation into election board


  • World
  • Sunday, 24 Sep 2017

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's chief prosecutor has directed the department of criminal investigations and the anti-corruption commission to investigate election board officials over possible offences in the invalidated Aug. 8 presidential vote, he said in a letter.

Keriako Tobiko, the director of public prosecutions, also asked the two agencies to examine allegations that two senior opposition officials gained illegal access to servers of the election commission as the poll results were being tallied.

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