Kenya’s Electoral Commission Official, Roselyn Akombe Resigns, Runs To U.S.

All may not be well with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC) as one of its key personnel, Roselyn Akombe has thrown in the towel and proceeded to run to the United States of America, fearing for her life.
Reports on Wednesday (BBC News), October 18 suggest that the country is unable to hold credible elections next week going by her resignation and the fear it had created.
Akombe said the IEBC was under political “siege”, and could reach consensus or take any decisions.
She told the BBC from her U.S. abode that she had feared for her safety while in Kenya after receiving numerous threats.
Just last week, opposition leader Raila Odinga announced he was pulling out of the rescheduled October 26 presidential re-run.
The Supreme Court had annulled the result of the original poll of August 18, 2017 which saw current President Uhuru Kenyatta declared winner, after discovering irregularities and illegalities.
Akombe told the BBC in an interview from New York said: “The election commission’s IT head, Chris Msando, was “brutally murdered” before the August poll, and “you’ll be suicidal to think that nothing will happen to you”. “I have never felt the kind of fear that I felt in my own country,” Ms Akombe told the BBC.
“I have tried the best I could do given the circumstances. Sometimes, you walk away, especially when potentially lives are at stake. The commission has become a party to the current crisis. The commission is under siege. “The commission in its current state can surely not guarantee a credible election on 26 October 2017.”