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We need more patriots like Akombe, new Kenyan heroine

Dr Roselyn Akombe

Last week, Dr Roselyn Akombe, then an IEBC commissioner, did what Kenyans in high office never do. She quit her lofty appointment at the IEBC.

She wasn’t fired — she quit voluntarily. She resigned because she believed the IEBC could not — even if struck by a miracle — organise a credible, free and fair election on October 26. Since her resignation, Dr Akombe has been extremely candid, as she should, on the monster that the IEBC has become.

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