NAIROBI Jordan Reed Redskin Jersey , Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's chief prosecutor has ordered investigations into electoral offences allegedly committed by various persons in the bungled Aug. 8 general elections.
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keriako Tobiko on Saturday evening instructed the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to investigate individuals who committed electoral offences in the recent elections.
Tobiko ordered DCI boss Ndegwa Muhoro and EACC chief executive officer Halakhe Waqo to conduct "thorough, comprehensive and expeditious" investigations to be submitted to him within 21 days.
He said he wants investigations conducted even though the Supreme Court did not blame anyone over the sham polls which were overturned by the apex court following successful petition by opposition leader Raila Odinga.
"The fact that it did not do so does not take away the powers of the DPP under Article 157(4) of the Constitution or Section 21 of the Elections Offences Act to order such investigations in an appropriate case such as the present one," Tobiko said in his letter to the two government agencies.
The scope of the probe should seek to establish whether electoral or criminal offences -- including corruption and economic crimes -- were committed by IEBC officials.
"I have designated a team of senior prosecutors to provide technical guidance and assistance to the investigation teams," said Tobiko.
Among those to be investigated include IEBC chief executive officer Ezra Chiloba and 11 other officials, opposition members Musalia Mudavadi and James Orengo.
Jubilee Party alleges that both Orengo who is the lead lawyer for Odinga during the pertition and Mudavadi, Odinga's chief agent, had access to information obtained illegally from the IEBC servers.
The opposition, National Super Alliance (NASA) on Friday wrote to Tobiko asking him to institute investigations and possible prosecution of 11 IEBC officials who it claimed messed up last month's presidential election.
"The substance of which is that they allegedly obtained information of the actual presidential election results from IEBC servers from what they called confidential IEBC sources," Tobiko said.
Political analysts have warned that should some or all of the IEBC officials be found guilty, the repeat elections could be thrown into disarray and plunge the country into a constitutional crisis.
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ROME, Aug.31 (Xinhua) -- Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Thursday hailed the record-high rise of Italy's employment rate after 2008 economic crisis.
Gentiloni said in his tweeter: "employed Italians over 23 million, a record. "Still a lot to be done against unemployment, but positive effects of #jobs act and recovery".
Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, the leader of Gentiloni's center-left Democratic Party (PD), earlier said his controversial 2014 Jobs Act, a labor-market hiring-and-firing reform pact, had created almost a million jobs. "The #Jobs Act creates a million jobs, now #forward," he tweeted, citing the title of his recent book.
According to Ansa news agency, Italian Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said "there is a recovery, all the data say so, from GDP to employment to confidence. "Therefore a recovery is consolidating, which must become structural from cyclical, and the government is continuing to work in this direction".
Meanwhile, Italian President Sergio Mattarella also welcomed the jobs data. "Italy is composed of many sides and let's hope they are all comforting," he was quoted by Ansa as saying.
Italy's national statistics office ISTAT said Thursday the number of people in work rose above 23 million in July, for the first time since 2008, the start of Italy's long recession.
The number of employed in July was 23.063 million, the highest since October 2008 when it was 23.081 million, the ISTAT said.
The number of people in work in Italy rose by 59,000 (0.3 percent) between June and July, and by 294,000 between July 2016 and July 2017, a gain of 1.3 percent, ISTAT said. However, Italy's unemployment rate rose 0.2 percent to 11.3 percent from June to July this year.
Italy's youth unemployment rate rose 0.3 percent between June and July, to 35.5 percent, the ISTAT said.
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