Ghana's Peter Mac Manu, who was leading a team of Democratic Union of Africa International Observers to Kenya’s General Elections, has been refused entry in that country.

One other unnamed Ghanaian has also been reportedly deported by the security officials of the East African country, three days to the polls expected to be tightly-fought.

Myjoyonline.com has learnt, Mr. Mac Manu arrived in Accra Saturday morning after he was refused entry into the country by security officers.

Peter Mac Manu was Campaign Manager of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections, 

Mr. Mac Manu was met on arrival Saturday morning at the Kotoka Airport by officials of the NPP.

Local radio station based in Nairobi, Capital FM reports the US Embassy has also confirmed that two foreign nationals working for the opposition have been deported from Kenya.  

In a tweet, the US embassy in Nairobi said an American and a Canadian had been detained Friday. “They’re safe & departing Kenya,” it added.

James Orengo, a senior official in the National Super Alliance (NASA) opposition coalition, named the two as John Aristotle Phillips, an American, and Andreas Katsouris, a Canadian.

Phillips is believed to be chief executive officer of Aristotle Inc, a Washington-based data mining firm and political consultancy, while Katsouris is a senior vice president in the company.

Aristotle did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Orengo described the two men as “friends from Canada and the United States”.

“Both of them were sharing their experiences with us,” he said without providing further details. Aristotle has reportedly been hired to work on the NASA campaign.

“The police invaded their apartment where they were living in Westlands,” a Nairobi neighbourhood, Orengo said.

The deportations and denials of entry come as the opposition claimed police had late Friday raided a party tally centre in Westlands where a parallel vote count was due to be conducted.

Orengo alleged all the incidents are part of a government plan to undermine the opposition’s ability to verify results from national elections due on August 8.
“This should be seen in the context that yesterday was like an operation, not simply (targeting) this national centre but looking for everybody who would want to work with us.”

Kenya’s police chief has denied any such raid took place.

Earlier this week the tortured body of Chris Msando, the election commission’s technology head responsible for overseeing the electronic transmission of results, was found dumped in a forest outside Nairobi.