Two days after Kenya’s contentious repeat Presidential election, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission was yet to announce the final results despite the tentative numbers giving Uhuru Kenyatta a clear lead. However, there were contradictions on the actual number of voters who participated in an election that was boycotted by the main Opposition leader and National Super Alliance candidate Raila Odinga. The ballot papers had eight candidates who contested in the previous election in August. The Commission’s Chairperson Wafula Chebukati had said on Thursday that an estimated 6.5 million Kenyans representing 48% of the registered voters had participated in the election. However, the Commission revealed that these figures were only derived from those Constituencies that had submitted results by Thursday.

“It has come to the attention of the Commission that there are fake and unverified results being circulated on the social media. We wish to raise that the official results are those verified and announced at this center that is the National Tallying center. So at the time the figure of 6.5 went out, the forms were not at 7,000 they were much less than that 7,000.” Wafula Chebukati – Chairperson, IEBC.

The Commission right remained unclear on when elections would be held in the four counties of Migori, Ziyaya, Kisumu and Homabe where they were suspended for the second time. Now Kenyans were still guessing whether this one would an implication on when the final results would be announced. “We have the materials ready but we can’t do this alone, it’s a security issue and it’s a challenge to us because as a Commission we cannot put the lives of our staff at risk.” Said the IEBC Chairperson. Meanwhile calm returned to most parts of the country even in those counties where election violence was witnessed on Thursday. The Police was still maintaining heavy presence in Kawangware area in Nairobi where suspected criminal gangs set fire to houses. “...there is not something else, because burning properties like these; M-pesa, shops, Hotel, Residences, Hardware, intended, it is deliberate.”