Kenya: Official who oversaw 2007 chaotic poll dies
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's former electoral chief who oversaw a
flawed electoral process in 2007 has died following a battle with
cancer.
A family spokesman, John Musyoki, says the 74-year-old
Samuel Kivuitu died Monday of cardiac arrest. The death comes one week
before Kenya holds its next presidential elections, the first since a
flawed 2007 vote triggered violence in which more than 1,000 people were
killed and 600,000 were evicted from their homes.
A 2008
government report said the electoral commission overseeing the 2007 poll
lacked independence, capacity and functionality. The report said
results of that election were so perverted it was impossible to
determine who won the presidency.
Kenyan leaders hope a new
constitution, an improved judiciary and police reforms will help next
week's election proceed without violence.
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