Former UN chief Kofi Annan is due in Kenya Thursday to receive a report compiled by a team of inquiry set up to probe the country's disputed December, 2007 elections.
A statement from the UN Information Centre in Nairobi said the former UN Secretary-General will meet the Kenyan leaders and members of the Independent Review Commission (IREC) team which handed its report to President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Wednesday after a six-month investigation
"While in Nairobi, Annan is scheduled to meet with President Mwai Kibaki, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Justice Johann Kriegler and members of the Independent Review Commission (IREC) on the 2007 elections. Annan is expected to receive a copy of IREC's report on Thursday," the statement said.
The commission of inquiry held public meetings around the country where members of the public, electoral officials and political party representatives gave their views about the elections.
While presenting the report, IREC's chairman, South African Judge Johann Kriegler, said that it would be impossible to know who had really won the December elections.
More than 1,000 people died in clashes after claims the poll was rigged. The violence also displaced another 350,000 people.
The commission, set up by a panel of African Union mediators, said there was no evidence that the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) was guilty of rigging the poll results in favour of President Kibaki or any other candidates.
The probe team said the electoral crisis was due to systemic dysfunction of the entire electoral system and the ECK should be overhauled or replaced with a new body.
"There is radical reform necessary to replace or transform the ECK with a new name - possibly a new image - composed of a lean policy-making body," Kriegler said.
President Kibaki said the government would examine the recommendations in the report for implementation and directed that the report by made public on Friday.
The probe team also recommended that the country should adopt anew voter registration system to restore electoral integrity in the country.
Kibaki and Odinga formed a power-sharing government in April, after both claimed victory in the December elections.
Source:Xinhua
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