Wafula Chebukati accused Chiloba of belittling serious concerns over the August election management. [Photo /the-star.co.ke]The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s (IEBC) CEO Ezra Chiloba and his chairman Wafula Chebukati have locked hones yet again over the responses given by the CEO on key concerns that led to the invalidation of August 8 presidential results.
The IEBC Chair has dismissed an earlier response by Mr. Chiloba to the first controversial 12 point memo.
Mr Chebukati accuses Chiloba of belittling serious concerns on the way the August poll was managed, The Star reports.
On Tuesday September 19, Mr Chebukati suspended the commission’s ICT director James Muhati, ICT coordinator Paul Mugo and ICT officer Boniface Wamae for allegedly making changes in the IEBC server without his acquaintance.
They are said to have used Chebukati’s account to make 9,934 unauthorised changes in the IEBC server.
Chiloba argued that there was deletion of documents in the server was due to their poor image quality while others were corrupted.
However, Mr Chebukati has dismissed the position of the IEBC CEO saying that deletion of files in the commission’s server was legally prohibited.
He said: “Deletion is completely prohibited under the security checks, which state clearly and in no uncertain terms that deletion and overwriting [are] not permitted and that only the National Returning Officer shall have read-only access of the designated shared folder on the FTP server.”
Mr Chebukati is now demanding answers on how the suspended Mugo and Wamae acquired additional rights to delete and have privileged access to the server.
“Under whose authority did they accrue these super user rights in respect of the presidential election? What was the scope of the user rights/privileges exercised in the name of the chairperson, and were these rights delegated or otherwise assigned to any other person? If so, whom?” the memo queries.
The IEBC chair further demands supporting documents, including packing lists of the forms supplied by the Al Ghurair printing firm.
During a recent NTV interview, Mr Chiloba claimed that some of the forms were destroyed due to printing failures in some constituencies.