NAIROBI
(Reuters) - Police raided the offices of Kenya's opposition alliance on Friday
evening, an opposition spokesman said, four days before a national election.
Dennis
Onyango, a spokesman for veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga, said the
purpose of the raid on the party offices in the capital was unclear.
Kenyan
television reported that police at the scene said the raid was carried out
because the opposition was running a "parallel vote tallying center."
Kenyan
election law stipulates that only the country's election board can tally and
announce election results. The country's last two elections have been marred by
problems.
In 2013
electronic voting equipment suffered widespread failure, and in 2007 a winner
was declared while tallying - which was never completed - was still under way.
Odinga ran
in both elections, lost both, and each time blamed fraud. This time he had said
that his party intended to keep their own track of the vote tallies.
Odinga is
running against President Uhuru Kenyatta in the Aug. 8 polls, when Kenyans will
also chose their next lawmakers and local representatives.
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