Police are still grilling a number of the electoral body officials arrested in connection with suspected irregularities in the August 9 polls.
This is going on even as the Independent and Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) already sent four of its officers in Homa Bay County packing over suspicions that they were planning to rig the polls. When announcing the presidential election result, IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati pointed out that a number of the commission's staff had been arrested for no reason.
"We have staff who have been arbitrarily arrested for no reason and I don't know where they are at the moment," he said.
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