Printing ballot papers abroad won't make polls free and fair

Security officers record batch numbers of pellets containing ballot papers at the JKIA. [Denish Ochieng' Standard]

Outsourcing the printing of ballot papers wastes money because since the 1992 multiparty elections, elections have always been ‘stolen’ in Kenya. So return your sword to its sheath and consider this.

Over 40 countries in Africa outsource money printing and coinage from the UK, France and Germany. Generally, African countries depend on imported goods and services from the West. It is a 21st-century form of state slavery stalling industrialisation in African states - it entrenches total dependency on the global north for production.