Martha Karua reveals the team of 21 hackers who had the backing of the IEBC to rig out Azimio
Martha Karua reveals the team of 21 hackers who had the backing of the IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukat to rig out Azimio in favour of William Ruto.
Raila Odinga and his running mate Martha Karua claim in court that the 2022 presidential election was rigged well before August 9 by 21 people—19 foreigners and two Kenyans—who had access to the electoral agency’s technology.
The alleged rigging, according to Mr. Odinga and Ms. Karua, started in March 2022 when foreign nationals allegedly got into and interfered with the systems of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
Mr. Odinga and Ms. Karua assert that the meddling led to manipulation and alteration of voter turnout and Kiems kit data on election day and the subsequent announcement of William Ruto as President-elect without providing the names of those allegedly involved in the plot.
Martha Karua in her petition stated that the 21 individuals were not employees of the IEBC.
She asserted that the 21 hackers manipulated figures and election results generated by the presiding officers in the field, thus compromising the integrity of the election.
“There was an elaborate and fraudulent premeditated scheme to interfere with and undermine and defeat the integrity, credibility, and security of the presidential election. The interference was intended to alter the true results of the presidential election,” She claims.
In a 45-page affidavit, Martha Karua swears that Wafula Chebukati is also accountable for 12 electoral offenses.
“Mr. Chebukati was personally continuously deleting and uploading different result declaration forms Form 34A, 34B, and 34C even after the declaration of the final ‘outcome’ on August 15, 2022, as shown by the use of his credentials in the logs of the IEBC portal,” Karua alleges.
Karua adds that forms 34A were being intercepted and stored temporarily in an external address not belonging to the IEBC, so as “to allow the interceptor to manipulate the forms 34A before re-uploading and uploading different forms 34A”.
She also claims that a laptop belonging to Mr. Koech Geoffrey Kipngosos, an agent of the United Democratic Party, was discovered in the verification auditorium at the National Tallying Centre in Bomas, Kenya.
According to Karua, the laptop was connected to a network on the outside, where forms 34A were “temporarily stored, downloaded, and then re-uploaded to the IEBC portal through an application for sharing data.
Court papers indicate the basis of the petitioners’ claim of interference with the election is a forensic communication analysis of electronic devices seized from three Venezuelans arrested on July 21 at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
The analysis was done by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.
“Evidence obtained from the forensic communication analysis of the electronic devices that were in the possession of the said three foreigners on the eve of the General Election reveals serious and alarming facts that would later be manifest in the disputed electoral process, system, and conduct of the elections,” court papers indicate.
“The historical analysis of one of the laptops indicated the user is able to directly log into the IEBC local IP address using remote desktop tools. The history demonstrates that the remote access to the IEBC IP address began in March 2022,” says Karua.
Ms. Karua adds that the analysis showed that a person named “Jose Grecoria Camarigo Catellanos was the super administrator of the IEBC Integrated Database Management System (IDMS) and has all rights to manage IEBC field staff using Kiems kit.”
The said person can also add, remove and delete data using the system and can assign [roles] to IEBC staff, Karua claims.
Another claim is that a day after the election, 687 Kiems kits were still open.
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