In December 2002, greedy party functionaries sold nomination tickets to losers and moneyed individuals at the expense of popular candidates. A case in point was the bombardment of the NARC head offices in Nairobi with stones by angry losers. Realizing that they were under siege, the profiteers handed in nomination certificates to the protesters through the office windows. In Kisumu, it was the same story but a little more bizarre. It was alleged that nomination managers holed themselves in a top star hotel and started dishing out nomination certificates to the highest bidders...
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