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 who is traveling to US for an official meeting was delayed at JKIA by officials who have since apologized. She returns on Sunday pic.twitter.com/mZmzWugLMJ— IEBC (@IEBCKenya) August 16, 2017
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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