Odinga calls for the sacking of officials

Kenyan Opposition leader Raila Odinga on Tuesday sought the sacking of several poll commission officials and set other conditions for taking part in a presidential vote re-run in October after the landmark scrapping of last month’s poll won by President Uhuru Kenyatta.

“There will be no election on the 17th of October until terms and conditions which we have spelt out in this statement are met,” a combative Mr. Odinga told reporters.

He said the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) had set the new date after only consulting Mr. Kenyatta’s Jubilee grouping and not his National Super Alliance.

“A number of the election officials should be sent home and some of them should be investigated and prosecuted for the kind of heinous crimes they committed in the last elections. Their names are known,” he said.

Mr. Odinga said all eight presidential candidates who took part in the earlier poll should be allowed to contest this time as well.