Kenya: Elections official found dead a week before elections

An ICT manager at the Kenyan Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) , Christopher Musando has been found dead just days after he was reported missing.

Musando was one of the few people with crucial information on IEBC election preparedness and technology, including knowledge on the location of the commission’s servers.

The director’s body was found hours after his vehicle was found behind Thika Road Mall, off the Thika Superhighway in Nairobi. Musando was reported missing by the elections body on Sunday, 30 July. A statement by IEBS chair, Wafula Chebukati, said Chris Musando was last seen on Friday night. ‘The last communication from him is an SMS text sent to one of his colleagues at around 3.00 am on Saturday morning,’

The Commission wishes to notify the public that one of its ICT Managers was last seen on Friday night. Efforts being made to trace him pic.twitter.com/NX2WM2cOOz

— IEBC (@IEBCKenya) July 30, 2017

Advise to @IEBCKenya: to avoid any loss of life please destroy the 1.2 million extra ballots at least in honour of Chris Msando #RIPMsando

— Dr. Ekuru Aukot (@EAukot) July 31, 2017

https://twitter.com/misssKenyatta/status/891978824656838656

They simply had to kill him. #RIPMsando pic.twitter.com/iHnmSx0JV3

— Kipkalya Kones (@MrKipkalya) July 31, 2017

I'm devastated by the current unfolding of Chris Msando at City Mortuary. Jubilee & NASA are a curse to this country. #RIPMSANDO

— Mwaura (@MwauraWambiru) July 31, 2017

If i were @wchebukati & @ezraCHILOBA three main things i will do: 1. Refuse to hold election until killers of Msando are exposed #RIPMsando

— Dr. Ekuru Aukot (@EAukot) July 31, 2017

https://twitter.com/dickensyulemoja/status/892030394417254404

#RIPMsando
No human being deserves such cruel and inhumane treatment in a society governed by the rule of law

— El-Hadary (@RaphaelOmalla) July 31, 2017

https://twitter.com/PerminusSanchez/status/892030340990160897

#RIPMsando We will not know who did this to you but investigations will be done then The verdict will be kept!!!
Haunt your killers pliz!!!

— I am Sultan 🇰🇪 (@officialsultani) July 31, 2017

Staff Writer