A past voting exercise.[Photo/Capitalfm]
A new report has indicated that democratic rights are increasingly not respected in Kenya.
A survey by Washington-based Freedom House, a non-partisan non-governmental organisation, recounts Kenya's controversial 2017 presidential election process, in which a “court-mandated rerun was marred by a lack of substantive reforms, incidents of political violence and a boycott by the main opposition candidate, Raila Odinga.”
“These factors undermined the credibility of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory, in which he claimed 98 per cent of the vote amid low turnout,” the Freedom House report said.
The group gave Kenya a score of 48 out of 100 points — a drop from 51 points in the previous year's report.
Kenya has been described as partly free.