A Kenyan electoral commission employee has been found dead two days after he was reported missing on Friday

Kenya is set to hold elections on August 8

A key Kenyan electoral commission employee has been found dead just days before the August 8 elections.

Chris Musando, an ICT manager with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), had gone missing on Friday.

Kenyan newspaper, The Star reports that Mr. Musando’s body was found with one arm missing.

Police said on Monday that his body and that of an unidentified woman had been found in the Kikuyu area on the outskirts of Nairobi and taken to the city mortuary.

Mr. Musando was rolling out a system for voter identification and transmission of results for the presidential, legislative and regional elections.

Kenyans will be heading to the polls on August 8 for elections that have been closely followed not just in the Horn of Africa country but across the world.

It is the sixth presidential election since the country of more than 45 million people embraced a multi-party democratic system in 1992.