Kimani Wanyoike when he addressed a meeting with Kenya Civil Servants union officials in January 1976. [File, Standard]
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Pictures of candidates, all smiles posing with returning officers after presenting their nomination papers to the electoral agency after being cleared to contest various seats are all over the place.
There was a time civil servants acted as returning officers. This was during an epoch when citizens paid licences to the government to listen to their radios in peace. Those who did not, lost the precious items to chiefs.
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