Staff of Kenya's electoral body protest killing of two colleagues

NAIROBI, KENYA - AUGUST 25: Kenyan Independent Electoral Commission (IEBC) staff and a group of activists staged a protest in the capital, Nairobi, on Thursday (Aug. 25) to demand justice for two colleagues who were killed following the country's presidential election.The IEBC returning officer for Gichugu constituency in Kirinyaga, Geoffrey Gitobu collapsed and died on Monday (Aug. 22) in Nanyuki while he had gone to see his family.He was rushed to Nanyuki Teaching and Referral hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.Gitobu's death came just days after his Embakasi East colleague Daniel Mbolu Musyoka was found dead.On August 16, police recovered the body of Musyoka, an electoral officer who disappeared during the vote counting after last week's election in the East African nation.Mbolu was found killed and dumped in a thicket after he was reported missing following the election held on Aug. 11.Police who came to the scene told local media that Mbolu appeared to have been tortured to death but that the motive was unclear so far.This came after Kenya's electoral body, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), announced on Monday that two out of its seven commissioners were injured at a scuffle at Bomas, the national tallying center in Nairobi.Protests broke out in key opposition strongholds across Kenya after the electoral commission announced Ruto as the fifth president of Kenya.In 2017, the commission's then-director of information, Chris Msando, was found killed with one of his arms cut just a week before the holding of elections that would be marred by malpractice.Ruto, who was announced president-elect on Monday, pledged to respect the law if the opposition challenges the election result in the courts. (Footage by Billy Mutai/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)