A Kenyan religious leader, Bishop Margaret Wanjiru, who was
a candidate in the political party primaries, is being detained for a further
four more days after being arrested on Wednesday for disrupting a voting
exercise, private Standard
newspaper reports.
Bishop Margaret Wanjiru, a popular religious leader, who
runs her own church, faces two charges of malicious damage and disrupting a
voting exercise.
Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi ordered that Bishop Wanjiru
is to be held until 2 May, when she will appear in court and could be released
on bond, the report says.
Local TV station KTN reports that if she is found guilty she
could face two years in prison.
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