Kenya tightens security as country waits for Supreme Court verdict

  20 September 2017    Read: 1295
Kenya tightens security as country waits for Supreme Court verdict
Police sealed off roads near Kenya’s Supreme Court on Wednesday as judges prepared to deliver a detailed ruling laying out their reasons for annulling last month’s presidential election.
Voters are anxious to find out whether the vote was voided on procedural grounds -- the court has already said in its brief Sept. 1 ruling that some tallying sheets were not signed or officially stamped -- or whether there was evidence of systematic rigging.

Election board officials had said incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta won by 1.5 million votes, but that was rejected by opposition leader Raila Odinga, who says the 2017 election -- and the previous two -- were stolen from him.

The court ordered a fresh vote to be held within 60 days.

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