Communications Authority (CA) of Kenya has responded to claims from the National Super Alliance (NASA) leadership that local telecommunication firms were involved in electoral fraud in the August polls.
A statement from CA Director General Francis Wangusi stated in part: "In line with our oversight responsibility as the ICT sector regulator, the Authority directed the mobile operators to report any cases of transmission failure to us. No cases of transmission failure were reported to us."
"We implore politicians to report any alleged election malpractices on the part of industry players to the relevant law enforcement agencies instead of engaging in blanket 'lynching' of investors in this strategic sector," Wangusi added.
At a press conference on Tuesday, former Prime Minister Raila Odinga alleged that he had evidence of a plot hatched to rig the August election in favour of Jubilee that was orchestrated by French security firm Safran Morpho in conjunction with some IEBC officials and six employees of a local telco.
He stated: "IEBC is living in denial. The results of the election that came from their polling stations never came back to their servers at Bomas of Kenya."
The Supreme Court cited issues with results transmission as one of the major reasons behind the nullification of the August 8th Presidential Election.
Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu stated that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission had failed to supply the court with 11, 883 Forms 34A up to 9 days after the election.
President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner with a substantial number of the forms unaccounted for.
Presiding Officers in the 40,883 polling stations are supposed to submit scanned images of the Forms 34A immediately results are confirmed. In case of poor network coverage, they should move to vantage points or deliver the physical forms to the Constituency tallying centre.
The IEBC has promised to reconfigure the transmission system to ensure the problems experienced do not recur.
