CHEBUKATI GOES AGAINST SUPREME COURT ORDERS

Polling agency IEBC has refused to provide some of the vital items it had been directed by the Supreme Court to produce in the final scrutiny report.

The Supreme Court had asked for three key items to be looked into during the official scrutiny that was completed by yesterday Thursday September 1.

And in the report now with the registrar of the Court, it was discovered that IEBC refused to provide forensically captured images of the server holding Form 34Cs which Wafula Chebukati relied on to declare the winner in the presidential contest.

In the IEBC response, it stated that going that deep would result into exposing their servers and could turn its systems vulnerable.

However, the electoral agency defended that it allowed both parties to have an access to real time figures.

“IEBC committed to providing a forensic image of form 34C to the court for the parties to apply for access. On September 1, the forensic image was availed to court,” partly read the report now at the registrar.

Moreover, in the same report, it has been discovered that the Wafula Chebukati-led team did not avail any agreement it had with their technology supplier(s).

This move was explained by the IEBC as going against the legal Non-disclosure terms of the agreement.

While delivering their directive, the Supreme Court Judges had strongly asked the IEBC to provide all the agreements for appropriate court analysis.

“IEBC is hereby directed to avail partnership agreements with its technical partners, list of users, trail, and admin access to provide clarity on the IEBC systems and their usage for review and verification, subject however to any security related issues thereof,” the seven-judge bench ordered then.

Lastly, the electoral body did not provide owners of the system administration passwords saying this would breach privacy terms especially on their staff. This went against the court orders as was announced in the court two days ago.

This particular report will be deliberated upon in court.

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