One of the four dissenting commissioners of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has detailed how a hacker colluded with commission's officials to tamper with presidential results.
Justus Nyang'aya, in an affidavit he swore in response to the Raila Odinga and Martha Karua presidential petition at the Supreme Court, said three IEBC commissioners colluded with a foreigner to intercept and change the results recorded in the forms 34A.
According to the commissioner, the foreigner who he identifies as Gudino Omar gained access of the IEBC servers from June 1, 2022.
Nyang'aya said that Gudino would patrol the commission's servers at night; during the transmission of the presidential results, he is said to have been making changes in the forms 34A originally uploaded from the polling stations.
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The IEBC trio the foreigner allegedly conspired with have been identified as Abdidahir Maalim, Moses Sunkuli and Gideon Balang.
"I make an oath that I am aware that a foreigner by the name Gudino Omar was able to access the commission’s server using user ID “O” and to pull down results that had been uploaded from the polling stations and later upload fresh results," says Nyang'aya in his affidavit.
He adds in his affidavit that Gudino would police the servers mostly at night.
"I do not understand what a foreigner would be doing on the commission's server during the election period nor do I understand why Gudino Omor was always busy on IEBC server at night," he said.
Others commissioners expected to make their responses to the petition are Juliana Cherera who is also the commission's vice chair, Francis Wanderi and Irene Masit.
The quartet dissented from Chebukati on August 15 citing opaqueness in the manner the commission conducted the last phase of the presidential vote.
"We are not at Bomas because of the opaque nature this phase has been handled and, therefore, cannot take ownership of the results that are going to be announced. We have an open door where people can go to court. We urge Kenyans to be peaceful because the rule of the law is going to prevail," said Cherera and her team.
In his pronouncement, Chebukati declared Deputy President William Ruto as the president-elect after garnering over 7.1 million votes.
Raila would be the first runner-up after securing over 6.9 million votes.
