EU CASTS DOUBTS OVER KENYAN POLL !

There are fears of further violence over the disputed election results. Kenya's presidential poll was "flawed" and "fell short of international standards", EU election monitors have said in an interim report on the poll. Chief European Union monitor Alexander Graf Lambsdorff said the tallying process "lacked credibility".

Four Kenyan election commissioners have also expressed unease at the result. Thousands of police and soldiers have been deployed across the country to try to stop the violence which followed the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki. The Red Cross says at least 120 people have been killed since violence broke out in response to the disputed result.

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EU observers said the country's election fell short of international standards. "They were marred by a lack of transparency in the processing and tallying of presidential results, which raises concerns about the accuracy of the final results," the EU team said in a statement.

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According to the EU, in at least two constituencies - Molo and Kieni - the results that were announced did not reflect the number of votes cast. EU observers say they heard the voting figures being announced in Molo itself, but when the same results were announced again in Nairobi, the number of votes for Mr Kibaki was significantly higher - by 25,000.

Four of the 22 Kenyan election commissioners have expressed doubts about the veracity of the figures. One of the four, Jack Tumwa, told the BBC he felt uncomfortable as the results were read out. "After the announcement, when an independent observer from the EU group came and said the figures given for Molo were at variance with what we had announced, that really struck me hard," he told the BBC. "That's why we felt if that is true - and I'm also saying if that is true - then perhaps it was spread all over. But this is yet to be ascertained."

Mr Kibaki was declared the winner on Sunday after a controversial three-day counting process.
His defeated challenger, Raila Odinga, said he was robbed of victory by alleged fraud.
BBC NEWS REPORT.