Outsider candidate accuses Kenyan pollsters of establishment bias

Issued on: 27/02/2013 - 09:20

With just five days to go before Kenya's general election, campaigning is in full swing. Former civil servant James Ole Kiyiapi is one of the eight candidates running for the presidency, leading the Restore and Build Kenya Party. Opinion polls suggest he is a rank outsider lagging far behind the favorites, Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga. Kiyiapi, who has accused pollsters of being in the leading candidates' pay and dividing the country along ethnic lines, tlks about his campaign for the presidency.

Seven of the eight presidential aspirants James Ole Kiyiapi, Uhuru Kenyatta, Peter Kenneth, Musalia Mudavadi, Martha Karua, Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Paul Muite Reuters/Stringer

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