Bungoma Governor Kenneth Lusaka. Photo- nation.co.ke
The Council of Governors have asked polls agency IEBC to address fears that it system could be hacked.
Bungoma Governor Kenneth Lusaka who chairs CoG’s Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) committee said there should be a manual back up to the system during the August election.
“In a few months’ time we are going to face an election. You realise the tension that the system to be adopted was generating in the whole country and again it has something to do with cyber-crime,” Governor Lusaka said.
He was speaking at an ICT summit dubbed “Connected 2017” at Leisure Lodge Resort in Kwale on Monday.
He added, “There were attacks and counter attacks from both sides of the political divide as to which system should be used. The greatest fear is hacking the system, because people have fears that the results would be manipulated at some point so that we do not get the desires of the voters.”
The Jubilee allied politician said manipulation of poll results could trigger violence.