Jubilee Party\u2019s Migori Governor aspirant Dalmas Otieno casts his vote on August 8, 2022. PHOTO | COURTESY<\/p><\/div>\n

Confirming the incident, Migori County Police Commander Mark Wanjala said Mr. Otieno was inspecting the voting exercise at the polling station when the youth started pelting stones at his vehicles. <\/span>According to Mr. Wanjala, the gubernatorial aspirant\u2019s bodyguard then came out of the vehicle to respond but was hacked on the head and his firearm snatched from him.<\/span><\/p>\n

The police boss said officers however responded swiftly and managed to recover the firearm with 13 rounds of ammunition. <\/span>He also said Mr. Otieno managed to escape unhurt during the fracas, while his bodyguard was treated at Rapcom hospital. <\/span>Mr. Wanjala further stated that they have since been able to identify some of the suspects and the police are now pursuing them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Suna West sub-county, a clerk attached to Kosege polling station was arrested after he was found in possession of five ballot papers. <\/span>The county police commander said the ballot papers were for the Woman Representative and Governor positions placed on his desk. <\/span>He said the clerk is presently in police custody pending investigations.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jubilee Party\u2019s Migori Governor aspirant Dalmas Otieno was on Tuesday reportedly attacked at the Anindo Primary School polling centre in Awendo sub-county. Mr. Otieno\u2019s bodyguard suffered head injuries, while the windscreens of two of his vehicles were cracked following an alleged attack by a group of about ten youth. Confirming the incident, Migori County Police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[155,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governance-and-opinion","category-popular-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4081,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions\/4081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}