Kenyan voter participates in a nation-wide mock election organised by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) at a polling station in Kajiado, some 130 km southwest Nairobi on February 24, 2013.
The IEBC runs the rehearsal eight days from Kenya's national elections viewed with an equal share of emotion and apprehension both locally and internationally and will be the first since bloody post-poll ethnic clashes that resulted in more than a thousand deaths.
Presidential candidates in next week, poll made a rare show of unity to rally Kenyans to vote peacefully and avoid violence witnessed during the last general election.
Sixty-two people have been charged with various electoral offences following highly-contested party primaries in Kenya.
A statement from the prosecutor’s office said a serving MP is among those who have been charged.
The offences include the bribery of voters and incitement to violence.
Kenya’s 8 August vote comes nearly a decade after disputed election results fuelled violence that left more than 1,000 dead and 500,000 displaced.
However the last elections in 2013 passed off relatively peacefully.
The prosecutor’s office also ordered investigations over violent incidents in five regions in different parts of the country.
Analysts say that the primaries have been so hard fought because becoming an elected official brings many financial benefits.
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