How Kenya will hold the most expensive election in the region

JKIA police officer inspects the first batch of ballot papers. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The mistrust in Kenya’s politics is pushing the cost of conducting the election ever higher, setting new benchmarks of how much the taxpayer must fork out to elect new leaders.

For the second consecutive election, Kenya is set to hold one of the most expensive polls in any of the developing nations, shadowing the budgets of neighbouring countries.