Elections: Kenya Opposition Claims Polls ‘Hacked’
Rival to President Uhuru Kenyatta, Raila Odinga has claimed a ,assive hacking attack had manipulated results, causing tension in the country. With ballots from 92 percent of polling stations counted, electoral commission (IEBC) results showed Kenyatta leading with 54.4 percent of the nearly 14 million ballots tallied against Odinga’s 44.7 percent, a difference of 1.3 million votes.
“These results are fake, it is a sham. They cannot be credible,” Odinga told a press conference in the early hours of the morning as partial results fell quickly via an electronic tallying system aimed at preventing fraud.
“This is an attack on our democracy. The 2017 general election was a fraud,” said Odinga, claiming detailed evidence of the hacker’s movements. He would not say how he got the information, as he wanted to “protect his source”.
Recall that before the elections a Top IEBC official was tortured and later killed by unknown gunmen.
Odinga claimed the IEBC had not provided the scanned forms meant to accompany the results.
The 72-year-old, who is making his fourth bid for the presidency as the flagbearer for the National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition, accused his rivals of stealing victory from him through rigging in 2007 and in 2013.
