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Arsonists burn ECK offices in
Kilgoris
Published on January 28, 2008, 12:00 am
By Isaac Ongiri
Arsonists broke into the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK)
stores in Kilgoris and set it on fire, burning all ballot boxes
and other essential materials.
The attackers raided the store 100 metres from the heavily-guarded
DC’s office, then fled after accomplishing their mission.
Trans-Mara District Election Co-Coordinator, Mr Pius Kangano, said
the commission had lost essential documents and assets in the
incident.
The raid occurred just as the ECK was planning to send a team of
investigators to Kilgoris, whose parliamentary results had been
nullified.
Meanwhile, a chief’s office was razed and more than 100 houses
burnt in Eldoret.
Arsonists descended on the office in Rehema estate where displaced
families had kept their belongings.
They reduced it to rubble together with houses belonging to the
displaced families that were still intact.
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