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Official from Kenya's electoral commission removed from plane

A senior Kenya electoral commission official who wanted to fly to the US for official business was last night removed from a plane at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and taken into police custody.

Dr Roselyne Akombe, an IEBC commissioner, was forced to spend the night at the airport after she was asked to leave her flight on Tuesday night.

It is not clear why she was prevented from flying but the Daily Nation newspaper said "Sources, however, told the Nation that some State operatives feared that Dr Akombe, who reportedly holds both Kenyan and US passports, was fleeing from Kenya".

The commission, however, clarified on its official Twitter account that the incident was a misunderstanding and Dr Akombe was later allowed to travel this morning:


Dr Akombe became known to the wider public last Friday when official election results were being announced after she famousl said "I am really going to be disappointing a lot of beautiful, young women out there. Because too bad, our CEO has been taken. He is happily married and he is not Muslim" referring to the IEBC chief executive Ezra Chiloba.

Akombe said Chiloba – or Chilobae as lovingly nicknamed by his female admirers - was Kenya's top-trending search term on Google at the time as Kenyans anxiously awaited the announcement of the results.

Prior to joining IEBC,Ms Akombe worked as a senior advisor to the UN under-secretary general for political affairs at the UN Secretariat in New York, USA.

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