Kenya's presidential candidates have faced off for a final
time ahead of elections on March 4, with more than 14 million citizens
registered to vote.The debate on Monday focused mainly on education and health
care. The current president Mwai Kibaki is not seeking re-election.The top two
contenders, who stood neck-and-neck in run-up polls, are Prime Minister Raila
Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta, the deputy premier who is also the son of Kenya's
first president as an independent nation. It will be the first election since a
disputed contest five years ago that sparked weeks of inter-tribal violence,
reports Aljazeera.
The reports further said, Kenyatta, one of the country's
richest men and a leader of the dominant Kikuyu tribe, chose to run for
president despite facing trial at the International Criminal Court over
allegations that he orchestrated revenge attacks against Odinga's supporters
after losing the 2007 election. He faces charges of crimes against humanity,
including murder, rape and persecution, over the violence that that left 1,200
dead. There are fears that violence may return again in this election season, says an Aljazeera report.
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