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Pastor locks out IEBC staff from church

IEBC officials take ballot boxes for Dagoretti North constituency at kilimani primary school to returning officers after counting the votes cast in the constituency on 26 October 2017. [photo/ David gichuru]

Voting was delayed for hours after a pastor locked out election officials from a church gazetted as a polling centre.

The pastor protested that property of the church, designated as Nadirkonyen polling station in Turkana Central, was destroyed in the August 8 elections and he didn't want further damage.

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