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State now expels American NGO’s boss, Genet Menelik

Interior PS Karanja Kibicho (Photo:Boniface Okendo)

The Government on Thursday deported a senior official of an American non-governmental organisation that hit the headlines over a Sh2.2 billion electoral programme in Kenya.

International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) head of operations Genet Menelik was traveling from the United States of America but was turned away at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

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