“NASA officials point out that the AMISOM deployment has provoked terrorist attacks on a Nairobi shopping mall and a university, killing hundreds and devastating Kenya’s tourism industry,” Ms Epstein added.
Raila’s position in regional politics was also a huge factor as to why the US was against his bid for the presidency.
“Odinga is also close to South Sudan’s beleaguered opposition and might help force the US-backed government into negotiations. This is something the Obama administration seems not to have wanted, and the Trump administration seems not to either,” she conveyed.
Ms Epstein read suspicion in how Former US Secretary of State John Kerry who was leading the Kenya Elections Observers Group, was quick to endorse the election results.
“Another rigged election in Africa is not news. But that US election observers were so quick to endorse it is shocking. Perhaps they believed that wrapping the election up quickly would prevent violence,” she added.
She further criticized Kerry’s commendation of how the electoral body had conducted the polls stating that “IEBC has done an extraordinary job to ensure that Kenya has a free, fair and credible poll”.
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