Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Saturday dismissed Zimbabwe's presidential run-off election on Friday as a sham and called for the deployment of African Union troops in the country.

"(President) Mugabe is a shame to Africa and the African Union should take it soldiers to Zimbabwe to free the people in that country," said Mr Odinga.

Mr Odinga said Kenya did not recognise Mugabe as the legitimate president of Zimbabwe describing his expected victory in the election boycotted by the opposition candidate as "fake".

"President Mugabe went ahead with the fake elections in which he competed against himself. That was a fake victory and we do not recognise it," said the prime minister in Nyando constituency during the thanksgiving ceremony for the area MP Mr Fred Outa.

"You cannot say you have won an election in which you arrest your opponents, where you beat and kill your opponents, where people cannot campaign because you have locked up them in jail."

Bad books

Mr Odinga has consistently spoken strongly against Mugabe in the recent past describing the long-serving Zimbabwean leader as a dictator, which he (Mr Odinga) says has got him into Mugabe's bad books.

"Mugabe says that Raila is his enemy number one. I do not need to go to Zimbabwe..." said Mr Odinga.

The Zimbabwean elections were held on Friday even after his challenger Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change withdrew from the race citing harassment of his supporters and Mugabe's declaration that he would not relinquish power even if he was defeated.