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Outlawed gang disrupts mock Malindi pollswacha mada ya mapanga iendelee...
Photo/MIKE KALAMA/NATION Ballot boxes destroyed during the mock elections at St Andrews Primary school on March 24, 2012.
By DANIEL NYASSY and KIPCHUMBA SOME. Posted Saturday, March 24 2012 at 22:30
A police officer was on Saturday injured and his firearm stolen after rowdy youths attacked a polling station during mock elections in Malindi constituency.
The trial elections, which were also being held simultaneously in Kajiado North constituency, were organised by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to allow residents to see how voting would take place in the next General Election.
The exercise was meant to simulate the process that will unfold during the polls set for March 4 next year by the IEBC amidst great controversy.
In Malindi constituency one of the four officers manning the polling station at St Andrews Primary School was forced to fire in the air several times to disperse the attackers.
Two female officers managed to escape and sought refuge in a nearby house.
IEBC officials were forced to cancel the elections after they were attacked by youths wielding crude weapons and their property, including ballot boxes, was vandalised.
The attack was linked to the Mombasa Republican Council which is agitating for the secession of Coast Province.
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