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WORLD NEWS Thursday 14 sepTember 2017

Riots in Kenya city after rumor about alleged election fraud

By TOM ODULA coalition said opposition
Associated Press members of parliament
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — will boycott all parliamen-
Riots broke out in Ke- tary activity until the new
nya’s opposition strong- election.
hold of Kisumu city after Moses Wetangula called
a rumor spread about al- the current chamber “de-
leged efforts to rig next void of any legality.”
month’s presidential elec- Civil society activists dem-
tion, a police official said onstrated in the capital,
Wednesday. Nairobi, to push the elec-
Several people were in- toral commission’s top of-
jured as police engaged ficials to resign.
youth who blocked roads “There must be action
in the southwestern city around officials who are
and threw stones, Nyanza associated with electoral
regional police boss Leon- offenses.
ard Katana said. We cannot go for a new
Police used tear gas to round of elections without
disperse them, he said. having action on these
The Kenya Television Net- officials and they cannot
work reported that youth conduct new elections,”
stormed a meeting of said Gladwell Otieno, ex- Kenyan police prevent opposition protesters who had blocked roads and thrown rocks from try-
women from various re- ecutive director of the ing to storm a hotel in Kisumu, western Kenya Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. A Kenya police official
says riots broke out in the opposition stronghold of Kisumu city after a rumor spread about al-
ligious groups at a local Africa Center for Open leged efforts to rig next month’s presidential election.
hotel as they discussed Governance.q (AP Photo/Amos Aura)
how to ensure a peaceful
election. Duterte refuses to open bank accounts to scrutiny
The women told KTN that
the youth beat them up By JIM GOMEZ campaign last year. In Feb- the same. Duterte’s policies who are
and stole their phones be- Associated Pres ruary, he publicly raised the Duterte went on a person- facing ouster attempts by
fore police intervened. MANILA, Philippines (AP) issue again because he al attack against Trillanes, the president’s political al-
Kenya will hold a repeat — The Philippine president said Duterte had not yet re- one of his harshest critics lies who overwhelmingly
presidential election on refused a demand by his vealed details of the more and a former navy officer dominate the Philippine
Oct. 17 after the Supreme most vocal critic to publicly than 2 billion pesos ($39 mil- once detained for a failed Congress.
Court nullified President release details of his bank lion) he allegedly kept in coup plot. He mocked On Wednesday, the ma-
Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-elec- accounts to disprove alle- bank accounts as a former Trillanes for losing the vice jority of the members of
tion last month. gations that he had large city mayor. presidential race last year the Justice Committee of
Opposition leader Raila sums of undeclared mon- Duterte inadvertently and alleged that the sena- the House of Representa-
Odinga went to court ey. brought the issue back to tor keeps huge funds in his tives voted to declare an
claiming electoral fraud. President Rodrigo Duterte public focus recently when bank accounts in amounts impeachment complaint
Odinga has repeatedly said in a news conference he alleged Trillanes has sev- just below the level that against Supreme Court
said he won’t participate Wednesday that if opposi- eral undeclared joint bank could spark a Central Bank Chief Justice Maria Lourdes
in next month’s vote un- tion Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV accounts with unidentified inquiry. Sereno sufficient to investi-
wanted “to get evidence, Chinese men in Hong Kong, Duterte said a move by gate her.
less changes are made to
the East African nation’s do not get it from my Malaysia, Australia and the another senator to file an On Tuesday, lawmakers
mouth. You must be stupid United States. Trillanes de-
ethical complaint against voted to slash the annual
electoral commission, ... Why would I give you the nied it and signed about Trillanes could lead to his budget of the Commission
which the court said had pleasure?” a dozen waivers for au- ouster from the chamber on Human Rights to 1,000
committed irregularities. Trillanes first alleged Duterte thorities to look into the al- “because of his behavior.” pesos ($20) for next year,
On Wednesday, a princi- had unexplained wealth leged bank accounts and Trillanes is among key of- although the decision can
pal member of Odinga’s during the presidential demanded that Duterte do ficials critical of some of still be changed. q