Lawyer Mahat Somane, appearing for IEBC, has explained why the name of Venezuelan Jose Camargo appeared on an IEBC form uploaded in the commission’s portal.
Speaking on Friday before the Supreme Court, Somane said that the form was an overlay document, and the document came from the QR register that is distributed to every polling station.
The lawyer said that a presiding officer took an original Form 34A and the QR register and took a photo of the form using the Kiems kit.
Somane added that the document was in the possession of the Supreme Court and upon scrutiny, the name of Camargo was on the register that had been printed.
“The document relating to Jose Camargo has come from the QR register which is distributed to every polling station. So what happened is that a presiding officer took an original Form 34A, he had the QR register and he took a picture of it,” Somane stated.
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He further added that the results on the original Forms 34A was the same as the results on the picture of the overlay taken that had Camargo’s name.
“So to the question that someone called Jose Camargo was interfering with the portal, it not true. Why would anyone try to interfere with a portal and the result he has is the same as what is in the portal?” Somane posed.
Azimio leader Raila Odinga’s lawyer Julie Soweto had raised a concern that Camargo was the one who declared the President-elect of Kenya.
“Jose Camargo is the person who decided the president-elect of Kenya. He is the one who was interfering with the forms,” Soweto said.
