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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
How Jubilee Rigged Elections - The CORD Propaganda
Panic has gripped the Jubilee Coalition headed by Uhuru
Kenyatta as details unravel on how the 2013 Presidential Elections were
manipulated to hand him a win by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries
Commission – IEBC, that is now the subject of a Supreme Court petition.
The emerging details point to a shocking scheme hatched by
circle of advisors and government functionaries within the intelligence and
civil service, way before the elections.
Analysts scrutinizing documents ahead of the Supreme Court
petition by the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy challenging the results,
were stuck by how technology was also used to aid Uhuru “defeat” Raila Odinga
of CORD.
“Kenyans can remember well that some curious things happened
with regard to the so called provisional results that IEBC kept churning out”,
says one of the lawyers handling the CORD petition.
“It was a statistical impossibility. Between March 4th
– March 7th, Raila Odinga was consistently stuck at 43/44% while
Uhuru stayed at 53%. Musalia was stuck at 2.8% while the margin between Uhuru
and Raila remained at 600,000-700,000 votes. This was impossible considering
that results were coming in randomly from all over Kenya. Yet these figures
remained consistent”.
After a confusing Friday 8th March when IEBC
postponed announcement of final constituency results till Saturday, a quick
operation was put in place to force acceptance of the results, amidst anxiety
by Kenyans that the voting process had been manipulated.
IEBC’s James Oswago reportedly called media houses late in
the night for a surprise final announcement of constituency results Friday
12.30am without indicating who had won.
Throughout the week IEBC had warned
media from declaring anyone the winner. However 30 minutes later KTN and NTV
got a “nod” to call the elections. From there on events moved quickly. At
1.30am KTN flew a banner indicating Uhuru Kenyatta was the winner. Several
stations in surprise followed suit. Kenyans would wake up on Saturday morning
to all TVs proclaiming “President Uhuru”, almost 12 hrs before Isaack Hassan
finally announced Uhuru’s win on Saturday afternoon.
The Weekly Citizen in this exclusive report can now report
stunning details of a rigging plot that would have passed undetected if all
players had stuck to the script and the “tyranny of numbers” theory had not
fallen flat on its face on March 4th.
According to CORD insiders and several statistics analysts
who have examined the IEBC voter register when it closed on Dec 18th, over
1,500,000 extra votes were “unexplained votes” votes that were for the
presidential result alone. Since according to the IEBC, every voter was given 6
ballot papers, IEBC will be hard pressed on how this happened.
If these allegations are proven then, Uhuru’s tally will
render his 6,173,433 vote announced by the IEBC to 4,673, 433. Which
could mean that Raila Odinga could have won the election if what CORD claims is
true.
The well calculated scheme was based on 3 critical things
that had to be done to force in Uhuru. The most important was to force a first
round win for Jubilee.
“It was obviously clear to us that any run-off would result
in an anti-Kikuyu vote in which only Kalenjins and Kikuyu’s would vote for
Uhuru while Raila takes off with the rest of the country’, says Central Kenya
Senator Elect over drinks at a popular Nairobi spot on the day the IEBC
announced Uhuru as President. “Winning Round One was never an option. It had to
happen”
Getting the numbers was an issue that had worried TNA
strategists one year before striking an alliance with William Ruto’s URP as the
Jubilee Coalition. Even if Ruto’s Kalenjin backyard was convinced to vote for
Uhuru, the numbers Kalenjins brought in were still not enough. Though the
“Tyranny of Numbers” propaganda was sold as a winning formula, insiders knew
the truth held a different reality. The 50% was simply not there. The best
Jubilee could manage was force a run-off their researchers said they would
lose.
The tyranny of the numbers was the psychological component
of the whole game; and the so was “PEACE” campaign enterprise, says a member of
the civil society
“It is Funny that the tyranny of numbers theory perpetuated
by Political Analyst Mutahi Ngunyi done in February 2013 mentions the same
figures Uhuru got in the final tally” says popular blogger Robert Alai.
Several contingency plans were made to ensure the plan
succeeds. One was to ensure that the Kikuyu and Kalenjin voter turn-out was to
hit 95% while hoping that CORD base’s turn-out would remain at the traditional
65% to 70%.
Like many assumptions made by the Jubilee strategy team,
their plan on turn-out was based on assumptions that CORD’s base would barely
attain their traditional turnout.
The second critical factor was use of technology to help add
up numbers as the infamous tyranny of numbers depended on factors outside
Jubilee’s control.
This plan to be used was borrowed from Ghana’s December 2012
Presidential Elections. The election which is now being contested at the
Ghanian Supreme Court was won by President John Mahama who was announced to
have secured 50.7% of votes, enough to avoid a run-off against NPP candidate
Nana Akufo-Addo with 47.7%. Akuf-Addo has filed a petition with evidence that
the vote was won by manipulating the electronic system.
In the Ghanian petition, proof has been revealed the company
hired by the Ghanaian Election Commission to supply data services – SuperLock
Technologies Ltd – also had a contract with the National Democratic Congress to
supply the same services to the party that included tallying. In the petition
NPP says it had found irregularities such as cases of over voting and instances
when people not registered by the new biometric finger-printing system were
able to vote.
According to the NPP and the other parties, these numbers
announced by the Ghana’s Electoral Commission did not correspond with actual
votes recorded in the 275 constituencies. They allege tampering of numbers by
the suppliers of IT services in favour of John Mahama. The commission also
reported that turnout was at an all time high of 81%.
In a dramatic incident during the elections, NPP stormed the
electronic suppliers premises and claimed to have caught the company’s data
personnel altering results before transmission to the National Tallying Centre
Similar to the Ghanaian case, the company that supplied
Kenya’s IEBC with the electronic data and call centre services is Ken Call. The
company whose connection to IEBC were never made public was charged with supplying
call centre services and hosting the data base from where the polling station
results were remitted to the IEBC. Ken Call also has a contract with
Uhuru Kenyatta’s The National Alliance party to supply tallying services of
results from polling stations!
“Results from Returning officers at polling stations being
transmitted electronically were first relayed to Ken Call’s servers for onward
transmission to Bomas”, an IEBC official told Weekly Citizen.
“Imagine the same server was being used to tally results for
TNA! This is where the electronic tampering of results took place as it was
easy to access the same server which was serving both the IEBC and TNA and
managed by the same company. When questions started being raised about the
contradiction between figures announced at polling stations and the ones on
IEBC screens at Bomas, the system mysteriously crashed!”
The official says it is unclear when the company was hired
by the IEBC and why the commission ignored the conflict of interest.
The Weekly Citizen has discovered that like the Ghanaian
case the plan by to rig the Kenyan Presidential vote was 3 pronged;
First, encourage the purchase of BVR kits by the IEBC. The
technology was simply meant to hoodwink the public and crash when plan B was to
be effected. Using unorthodox means that included bribing IEBC officials, the
more experienced 4G solutions which serves India that has over 500 million
voters was disqualified and Code Inc given the job to supply the kits. Code Inc
went into liquidation and was renamed Electoral Systems International after the
Fijian government exposed the company to be a branch of the Canadian
Intelligence Organisation. Part of the system’s technology was supplied by a
company linked to a Mr Chirchir, a former Commissioner at the IEBC
Secondly, as Ghana’s NPP claims in their petition, the
ruling party used Super Lock Technologies Ltd to hack into the system and
pre-determine a mathematical formula that adjusts figures as they come for both
candidates while keeping any other candidates at a predetermined formula to
ensure they do not harm the intended outcome. (This possibly explains why
Uhuru’s margins with Raila never changed even with random results coming from
all over the country). Yet even with this plan, Jubilee knew they would
have to top up “few” numbers based as the 50% + 1 was still proving elusive
with a week to the election.
The third and final strategy was the real plan. Play with
Kenyans’ minds by manipulating results and establishing a lead for Jubilee then
crash the system and go manual. This was arranged by declining to have a
back-up server which would retain evidence of the manipulation. With only one
server, a deliberate crash would be final and would destroy evidence.
According to Maina Kiai, former chairman of the a human
rights organization the technology was a red herring.
“This election was meant to be manual from start to finish
loopholes included” he writes in his Saturday Nation column. “A manual result
is what would allow different results to be announced at the Constituency,
County and Bomas. All these electronic gadgets and equipment were meant to pull
wool over our eyes”
“Even with this plan, the team knew they would have to top
up numbers based as the 50% + 1 still proved elusive with a week to the
election” says a TNA Mp Elect.
Then March 4th came.
While the scheme was to “minimally” add votes to the
“tyrannical numbers” to enable a Round One win, everything went wrong on March
4th Election day as the electorate in key battle ground areas
stunned Jubilee strategists with an anti Uhuru vote.
Luhyas expected to vote for Musalia up to 50% rebelled and
went for Raila. The 30% of the Kamba vote expected from Kitui through Charity
Ngilu failed to come in. Coast where Jubilee were expecting a 50-50 share with
CORD bolted to Raila. CORD and Raila took off with 70% of the Kisii vote. In
Kalenjin land, voter turnout fell below 70%. The “tyranny of numbers” was
becoming a flop. With predictions by Jubilee statisticians collapsing all over
on Election Day, the team after consultations had to quickly switch to Plan
B.
“This plan was aided by the decision by the IEBC to keep
open some polling stations well after 5pm, the official closing time” says an
ODM Chief Agent who manned a County in Rift Valley. Plan B called for manual
voting to improve the numbers. “In Rift Valley CORD agents were reportedly
intimidated and some left the polling stations as die hard URP activists some
of whom manned the polling centres now took over. “It was hard to control what
they were doing after that. Some people were now being given 2-3 presidential
ballots to get their target number. You had no idea who was voting and who
wasn’t.”
As former Attorney General Amos Wako disclosed at a press
conference last week “It appears the IEBC had several registers as they did not
even gazette any. We will be asking the Supreme Court to examine which register
was being used and which one was valid”.
It is obvious CORD’s petition will put IEBC to task show an
increase in voter registration after the registration ended on 18th Dec. In
some cases the register grew by 35% in one constituency after reconciliation.
On December 18th 2012 @IEBCpagedeclared
there were 14,337,399 Registered Voters. The Final Register indicates there
were 13,352,533 Voters
Other than manipulate the register using technology,
technology was also becoming an obstacle to get the right numbers and ensure a
Round 1 win. The Voter Identification Kit which required fingerprint
identification for voters could not be manipulated as “ghost” voters could not
get in to vote or double voters. They had to be physically present.
By 2pm, a crisis meeting was convened by Jubilee strategists
on how to shore up numbers in Rift Valley.
Mysteriously the Finger Print Identification kit stopped
working. Manual voting was introduced.
The IEBC electronic tallying system which was relaying fast
results with a 53% lead for Uhuru four hours after 5pm, suddenly slowed down
with just a million votes in. Then the “IEBC” server which in reality belonged
to Ken Call crashed. And the results slowed down to a trickle. By 11pm IEBC
announced to the press that announcement of provisional results had been halted
and pushed to Tuesday.
Most IT experts confirm that the amount of data being
remitted for the 33,000 polling stations in terms of text messages could not
have crashed the system.
“It is very little data. Safaricom, Airtel and Orange deal
with almost 300 million text messages daily. The data from polling stations was
not that much”, says an employee of Safaricom on condition of anonymity. “What
is puzzling is why on such an important exercise IEBC and Ken Call did not
install the standard back-up server which would saved remitted results and
revived the process”.
The CORD team believes Isaack Hassan’s explanations were a
cover-up and that the technology “use” and “failure” were part of the strategy
to rig the elections.
“The electronic system kept Uhuru and Raila at particular
percentages to psychologically make Kenyans believe Uhuru was winning and Raila
was losing. However since the figures at Bomas were not matching forms 34, 35,
36, and the Jubilee “tyranny of numbers” formula had failed, the electronic
tallying system had to go.
Maina Kiai is more brutal in his assessment calling IEBC’s
excuses “hogwash”. “First it was that the server crashed. Then, than one side
of the disk was full and unable to accept results. Then that presiding officers
were slow in transmitting. The maximum capacity required for data from 33,000
polling stations is just 2GB, less than what a mobile phone can take!”
With the plan in progress for manual voting, by Wednesday
Rift Valley Turn-Out was being reported at 90% while Central had risen to 95%.
Based on the Kriegler report this numbers were obviously inflated. However more
was required as Uhuru had dropped below 50%. So delays had to be created for
Returning Officers to re-adjust figures.
The diversionary tactic kept Kenyans patient as Issack
Hassan kept talking of delays caused by “verification”, “technological
challenges” and introduced a phrase “complex elections” that would be
repeatedly used throughout the Bomas process.
With the announcement that manual voting would be used, the
vote tallying took a different outlook as the initial 48 hrs in which all
provisional results were to be announced dragged into days and tallying began
afresh. Questions about discrepancies by CORD officials resulted in IEBC
throwing them out. A compliant media was threatened into silence and no
criticism of the IEBC was to be aired.
The Bomas tallying centre was placed under heavy security as
the once accessible Chairman of the IEBC now avoided all media questions
regarding the process.
“This is the most opaque electoral commission and ranks
lower than even the late Kivuitu Commission” said one of CORD’s lawyers James
Orengo.
In the deliberate confusion that followed strange results
started flowing off the IBC press briefings. Among the cases are;
Wajir North had a 92% Voter Turn-Out for spot whose history
indicates 50-60%. In Wajir West, if the Final Register hadn’t been adjusted,
99.45% of the Registered Voters would have voted. In Nyaki East in North Imenti
with 12000 registered voters 15300 are reported to have voted!
In Kajiado South, the people who voted (42,276) is higher
than the people registered in Dec (41,040).Register adjusted to 46,218 to
conform. In Sigor, the people who voted (19,704) is higher than the people
registered in Dec (19,337).Register adjusted to 21,341 to conform.
“How does Turkana Central with 25,970 votes as at 18th Dec
end up with 34,486 voters after reconciliation?! Where did 8,516 voters come
from?” asks Dr Makodingo, a political analyst on his twitter page.
Worse still Worse still, IEBC’s figures refuse to add up
inspite of efforts to “correct errors”. Valid Votes (12,222,980) plus Rejected
Votes (108,975) add up to 12,331,955 and not their tally of 12,338,667!!
“It is strange that 1,500,000 persons only cast a vote
for a president and across Kenya this number is reflected in joint votes cast
for Senators, Governors, Mps, Women Reps or County Reps. It is an obvious case
of manual ballot box stuffing and double voting for Uhuru” says Statistics
analyst Dr Makodingo
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Part Of Evidence CORD is set to table before Supreme Court
In what promises to be a Titatic battle at the supreme court, CORD has officially announced that it is officially filling its petition against IEBC presidential figures released . and as part of their evidence, here is a sneak preview of their inside argument.
' IEBC cannot do simple addition! The standard newspaper today on pg 5 published the total presidential votes from the 47 counties. The total given for Raila is 5,407,889 against Uhuru's 6,173,433. The total voter turnout was given as 12,338,667. If you are a mathematician you will find that IEBC concealed 67,343 of Raila's votes. This figure would have pushed the voter turn ... to 12,406,010. 50% of this gives you 6,203,005. This figure is higher than Uhuru's 6,173,433 which apparently gave Uhuru 50.07%! The actual score should have been 49.76%!'
Meanwhile, CORD received a boost when Leaders drawn from Kisii and Nyamira Counties have vowed to support the petition filed by CORD to have the election of President Elect Uhuru Kenyatta nullified.
IEBC FAILURES AND THE ROLE OF THE COURTS
I am taking the liberty to post my
following comments and observations for your perusal, hoping it will be
helpful in assessing whether the elections management process met the
reasonable standards of integrity, efficiency and cost effectiveness.
It has been rather unfortunate that IEBC messed up the electoral process, right from the outset, starting from the flawed and irregular procurement of the BVR (biometric voter registration kits), Electronic Voter Identification Devices, Ballot papers and even general electoral materials such as indelible marker pens, solar powered lanterns, polling station banners etc.
Moreover, all appeals (I believe numbering 5) made by aggrieved parties (bidders) before the Public Procurement Administration and Review Board were thrown out on basis of the overriding public interest (that the elections were round the corner) with the exception of the case of supply of solar lanterns where the appeal was allowed as there was a clear element of impropriety and fraud involved concerning the company awarded the tender.
The courts have also delayed the finalisation of the appeals and then used the same excuse of public interest as was in the case of the appeal by AVANTE INTERNATIONAL (USA) for the supply of Electronic Voter Verification Devices and in case of the supply of ballot papers and where the court process was delayed.
In another instance, again the proceedings were delayed and the Judicial Review (JR) application dismissed on grounds that the matter had been overtaken by events and which was due to delivery orders being placed by IEBC while the JR proceedings were on going. This was contrary to law which requires that procurement proceedings come to a halt once a JR application is filed by the aggrieved party as was in case of an appeal involving the supply of general electoral materials, including supply of indelible marker pens, solar lanterns, tally printers , polling station banners, etc.).
When I challenged in court the fraudulent supply of BVR kits I met a similar fate. Mr. Justice David Amilcar Shikomera Majanja's court blocked me and even made a mockery of the law when it certified the case urgent but fixed the hearing of the application several months away. In all instances the judge ensured that the IEBC got away with its schemes despite glaring irregularities and anomalies and led to the country spending tripple the amount had the tender award been made to India's 4G Solutions as per the original recommendation. There is more than meets the eye as vested interests have been at play, including inn the courts. I have voluminous documentation to support my stand.
Some have described the huge budget as a gravy train to be exploited.
The election management process was definitely flawed owing to dysfunction/ non-function of the various equipment/technology and that has not been addressed or captured at all.
My assessments in this regard are as follows:
The system for transmitting provisional results was procured in a hurry through IFES (and which procurement was funded by USAID) and the process was done at the last moment around Christmas/New Year with a bidding period of about 5 working days only, without going on a proper international open tender. Other more credible and well known systems (eg from AVANTE TECHNOLOGY of USA ) were apparently disregarded despite having been successfully used in Uganda.
The public needs to know how many bidders participated and what system was procured and from whom. Safaricom supplied the mobile phones and the connection network but who supplied the software system and who was the systems integrator? IEBC must answer these questions.
The other point is that the mobile phones did not have a power back up such as solar chargers which were missing and I suspect that was one of the main cause of the problems encountered and needs to be addressed in case of a presidential rerun to avoid the delays recently experienced.
The problem could have been solved if IEBC would have used the election transmission system employing satellite phones which procurement (under IEBC TENDER NO 1/2012-2013) was cancelled at the last moment when the item was surreptitiously removed from the list of items without IEBC giving any reasons.
Had the satellite phones been procured from THURAYA or IMMARSAT, the results could have been transmitted through the satellite system using the satellite phones without being dependent on SAFARICOM.
Why did IEBC leave everything till the last minute and why was the item deleted?
Also the procurement of the electronic voter verification device (EVID) was marred with irregularities, when IEBC bought the device from FACE TECHNOLOGIES of S.Africa which had never been used or proven and despite the fact that the sample given by FACE was completely different at the time of tendering from what was supplied - this was irregular and the tender awarded despite the fact that the device did not properly work at the time of demonstration.
Why was FACE again being favoured by IEBC? Please note that it was previously favored by the IEBC Tender Committee for the procurement of the BVR Kits, to the detriment of the more qualified and lower priced Indian bidder (4G Solutions), which was the front runner that was initially shortlisted as potential supplier and the other S.African bidder, Lithotech, which was knocked out using flimsy excuses.
It is the vested interests of IEBC which is the cause of the current failures.
The BVR kit supplied by SAFRAN MORPHO was not powered by a proper solar power back up system and that could explain the malfunction experienced in the elections and in this case the procurement was again questionable as the procurement process was compromised due to a hiked up price and the delayed procurement owing to the vested interests. This in turn caused a resultant delay in the voter registration process taking off and disenfranchised many voters due to the short time allocated for the process.
IEBC was captive to vested interests and was not properly prepared to take up this exercise.
There was also poor management in connection with the procurement of the ballot papers and which was done at exorbitant pricing.
I shall be happy to avail supporting documents to back up the above information which I am posting here in good faith, hoping that it may prove useful in demanding a complete forensic audit of the IEBC.
Best regards
Okiya Okoiti Omtatah
It has been rather unfortunate that IEBC messed up the electoral process, right from the outset, starting from the flawed and irregular procurement of the BVR (biometric voter registration kits), Electronic Voter Identification Devices, Ballot papers and even general electoral materials such as indelible marker pens, solar powered lanterns, polling station banners etc.
Moreover, all appeals (I believe numbering 5) made by aggrieved parties (bidders) before the Public Procurement Administration and Review Board were thrown out on basis of the overriding public interest (that the elections were round the corner) with the exception of the case of supply of solar lanterns where the appeal was allowed as there was a clear element of impropriety and fraud involved concerning the company awarded the tender.
The courts have also delayed the finalisation of the appeals and then used the same excuse of public interest as was in the case of the appeal by AVANTE INTERNATIONAL (USA) for the supply of Electronic Voter Verification Devices and in case of the supply of ballot papers and where the court process was delayed.
In another instance, again the proceedings were delayed and the Judicial Review (JR) application dismissed on grounds that the matter had been overtaken by events and which was due to delivery orders being placed by IEBC while the JR proceedings were on going. This was contrary to law which requires that procurement proceedings come to a halt once a JR application is filed by the aggrieved party as was in case of an appeal involving the supply of general electoral materials, including supply of indelible marker pens, solar lanterns, tally printers , polling station banners, etc.).
When I challenged in court the fraudulent supply of BVR kits I met a similar fate. Mr. Justice David Amilcar Shikomera Majanja's court blocked me and even made a mockery of the law when it certified the case urgent but fixed the hearing of the application several months away. In all instances the judge ensured that the IEBC got away with its schemes despite glaring irregularities and anomalies and led to the country spending tripple the amount had the tender award been made to India's 4G Solutions as per the original recommendation. There is more than meets the eye as vested interests have been at play, including inn the courts. I have voluminous documentation to support my stand.
Some have described the huge budget as a gravy train to be exploited.
The election management process was definitely flawed owing to dysfunction/ non-function of the various equipment/technology and that has not been addressed or captured at all.
My assessments in this regard are as follows:
The system for transmitting provisional results was procured in a hurry through IFES (and which procurement was funded by USAID) and the process was done at the last moment around Christmas/New Year with a bidding period of about 5 working days only, without going on a proper international open tender. Other more credible and well known systems (eg from AVANTE TECHNOLOGY of USA ) were apparently disregarded despite having been successfully used in Uganda.
The public needs to know how many bidders participated and what system was procured and from whom. Safaricom supplied the mobile phones and the connection network but who supplied the software system and who was the systems integrator? IEBC must answer these questions.
The other point is that the mobile phones did not have a power back up such as solar chargers which were missing and I suspect that was one of the main cause of the problems encountered and needs to be addressed in case of a presidential rerun to avoid the delays recently experienced.
The problem could have been solved if IEBC would have used the election transmission system employing satellite phones which procurement (under IEBC TENDER NO 1/2012-2013) was cancelled at the last moment when the item was surreptitiously removed from the list of items without IEBC giving any reasons.
Had the satellite phones been procured from THURAYA or IMMARSAT, the results could have been transmitted through the satellite system using the satellite phones without being dependent on SAFARICOM.
Why did IEBC leave everything till the last minute and why was the item deleted?
Also the procurement of the electronic voter verification device (EVID) was marred with irregularities, when IEBC bought the device from FACE TECHNOLOGIES of S.Africa which had never been used or proven and despite the fact that the sample given by FACE was completely different at the time of tendering from what was supplied - this was irregular and the tender awarded despite the fact that the device did not properly work at the time of demonstration.
Why was FACE again being favoured by IEBC? Please note that it was previously favored by the IEBC Tender Committee for the procurement of the BVR Kits, to the detriment of the more qualified and lower priced Indian bidder (4G Solutions), which was the front runner that was initially shortlisted as potential supplier and the other S.African bidder, Lithotech, which was knocked out using flimsy excuses.
It is the vested interests of IEBC which is the cause of the current failures.
The BVR kit supplied by SAFRAN MORPHO was not powered by a proper solar power back up system and that could explain the malfunction experienced in the elections and in this case the procurement was again questionable as the procurement process was compromised due to a hiked up price and the delayed procurement owing to the vested interests. This in turn caused a resultant delay in the voter registration process taking off and disenfranchised many voters due to the short time allocated for the process.
IEBC was captive to vested interests and was not properly prepared to take up this exercise.
There was also poor management in connection with the procurement of the ballot papers and which was done at exorbitant pricing.
I shall be happy to avail supporting documents to back up the above information which I am posting here in good faith, hoping that it may prove useful in demanding a complete forensic audit of the IEBC.
Best regards
Okiya Okoiti Omtatah
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Do CORD Really Have A strong Case Against IEBC?
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission
(IEBC) has said Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) leaders are
relying on rumours in lodging their election petition at the Supreme Court.
Speaking
through a phone interview, commission Chairman said Isaack Hassan said CORD
officials are now desperate looking for evidence, since they have realised they
don’t have a watertight case against the IEBC.
Hassan
claimed that his commission conducted the just concluded elections with
professionalism and said he and his commissioners are ready to face CORD
leaders at the court of law if they have a case to file.
He
urged them not to shout on cameras but instead file a case at the Supreme Court
to prove how their won.
Hassan,
who is a lawyer by professional, said conducting elections in Kenya is a
challenging job which needs support from across the political divide but not
condemnation.
CORD
Coalition has been challenging the outcome of the just concluded General Election,
where Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the
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A LETTER TO ISAACK HASSAN by Jerry Okungu...A Must Read...
BY: Jerry Okungu, Nairobi, Kenya
March 7 2013
Dear Isaack,
This letter is from a concerned Kenyan who has a lot of
respect for your person and office
I am writing to you concerning the ongoing election
results, especially those concerning the presidential elections. What is
currently going on is a cause for worry to any Kenyan who loves this country.
You may not appreciate how apprehensive ordinary
Kenyans are when it comes to delayed election results. Their memories are still
very fresh when they recall what happened to them in 2007 when presidential
elections results were delayed as malpractices took over at the ECK offices
across the country.
They remember just too well when a presidential
candidate who had stretched a lead of 1 million votes in the first two days
suddenly saw his votes vanish in thin air.
They remember how the ECK Chairman, the late Samuel
Kivuitu could not reach or locate officers in various parts of the country with
attendant quote that the ‘Returning Officers and some Commissioners had
switched off their phones and were probably still cooking the results for their
masters’.
After three days of tension, Kivuitu was whisked to a
security room where he announced the results for the sitting president and
thereafter driven at breakneck speed to State House to go and hand over the
victory certificate confirming the reelection of the sitting president. This
was shortly after sunset the same day.
I do not want to repeat to you what followed. However
for one month, the country was up in flames as the international community
trooped in to quell the fire. Had they not intervened on time, there probably would
be no country called Kenya today.
What started as a rumour about vote stealing and ballot
box stuffing were later confirmed by Justice Johan Kriegler, the South African
retired judge who was brought in to investigate what went wrong with our
electoral system.
His verdict was telling. Everything that needed to go
wrong went wrong with Kenya’s elections in 2007. He condemned the ECK into
extinction.
Unfortunately, what your commission is currently doing
would look like you have borrowed the same script from Samuel Kivuitu and are
bent on following it to the letter. And you want to take refuge in the letter
of the law to let Kenya slide into chaos. You have put Kenyans on edge and set
them on the path that will make them snap. When they do, it will not look good
at all.
Why do I say this? I say this because you caused the
tax payers of this country to spend Ksh 25 billion to enable your commission
run a smooth and flawless election. Ksh 9 billion of that cash was used to buy
and install a bio metric voter register together with an electronic voter
register together with electronic links and computer servers with capacity to
receive, transmit and store millions of data that the exercise would generate.
Going electronic was indeed a recommendation of the
Kriegler Commission. And Kenyans agreed that it was better to spend US $
100million on that electronic system if that was the price we were to pay for
efficiency, speed, credibility and peace in our country.
Indeed you assured us that your team was fully prepared
with well trained personnel stationed in Nairobi and every polling station in
the country. You assured us that your powerful communication system would relay
results from polling stations to County Tallying Centers and then to the
National Command Post in Bomas.
However, three days after voting closed, the electronic
system either broke down, was hacked or sabotaged. Three days later, you still
could not get all returning officers into Nairobi despite the available airlift
facilities in the country.
But more disturbing was the fact that it was beginning
to emerge that a number of IEBC officials both at the head office and in the
counties have been discovered to be involved in numerous election malpractices.
Cases in point have been unearthed in Kitale in
Tranzoia and Nyali in the Coast regions. I’m sure you are aware of arrests that
were made in Kitale and Nyali in the glare of television cameras.
Just in case it escaped your attention; two computer
programmers thought to have corrupted or hacked your server were arrested
during the week. This criminal act made it difficult for your IT staff to
restore data lost. As a result, you abandoned the electronic relay of results
and ordered all rerunning officers back to Nairobi to start tallying results
manually.
I know this letter may be out of step with the current
PR efforts you are currently engaged in to do damage control. I can see KEPSA
and VISION 2030 CEOs have come out strongly in defense of IEBC and appealed for
patience. Unfortunately, that patience that Kenyans displayed for the first
three days is fast fading. Businesses are suffering as a result of this state
of apprehension.
That said, I must commend you for having made the right
decision to abandon the failed electronic system in order to get the results
out as soon as possible.
When it is over, please have a look at your
administrative set up and see if it is properly constituted and well trained.
You may need to overhaul the IT and Human Resource departments to avoid future
embarrassments.
Jerry Okungu
jerryokungu@gmail.com
The Only Question That IEBC has Never Answered
According to the Final Figures Released by the IEBC on the Presidential Results; I do believe that the figure would be out soon clearly for the public, IEBC has an open question to answer to the Millions of Voters.
The number of Votes cast does not tally with rejected votes plus votes received by all the candidates combined.This is the biggest mystery of all behind the disputed Kenyan polls.
The number of Votes cast does not tally with rejected votes plus votes received by all the candidates combined.This is the biggest mystery of all behind the disputed Kenyan polls.
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