IEBC Tells Supreme Court Evidence for NASA Election Petition is Missing

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has told the Supreme Court that they have not been able to find any evidence of hacking claims made by the National Super Alliance (NASA).

Arguing for the IEBC, lawyer Paul Nyamodi told the court that their investigations of the documents submitted by the NASA petitioners did not contain any allegations of the hacking or adding of results.

Mr Nyamodi also noted that statements made by NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga on national television were not outlined in the documents submitted by his team.

According to the lawyer, neither the figures nor the demand issued by Mr Odinga to be declared winner "with a tally of eight million votes" were included in the papers he filed in his petition.

"We have searched the length and breadth of the petition and that evidence does not appear," Mr Nyamodi stated.

The lawyer also went on to explain to the court how the results were tallied resulting in a win for President Uhuru Kenyatta.

"Elections in Kenya are not purely electronic. Results are delivered either electronically or manually. 

"Those figures were not provisional results," the lawyer outlined to counter assertions made by the NASA side that the IEBC displayed provisional results during the August 2017 elections.

Citing the ruling made by the Court of Appeal making results declared at the constituency level final, Mr Nyamodi emphasised that the tally used to announce President Kenyatta as winner was lawful.

"A true reading of the decision is that the soft document that the second respondent used to declare the winner is Form 34B.

"Provisional results were done away with. That court took away the ability to render any result as provisional," he asserted.

 

 

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