Muana Ville, Hearing Officer of the National Elections Commission (NEC), has denied and dismissed complaints of fraud and irregularities in the October 10, 2017 elections filed by the Liberty Party first complainant and the Unity Party, interveners. The NEC Hearing Officer in his ruling said, the first complainant and intervener complainant failed to prove allegations of fraud that warrant the re-run of the October 10, 2017 elections. "The first complainant and interveners have failed to prove allegations of fraud that warrant the re-run of the October 10, 2017 elections,” Ville said. Hearing Officer Ville: "On the day of election, voters arrived at almost all of the polling places before queue controllers and arranged their own queues, making it difficult to redirect to their proper roll. "The hearing officer is not convinced that these challenges alluded to by the defendants during the hearing of the complaint amount to fraud."

Source: Front Page Africa November 20, 2017 20:15 UTC