IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati. Photo/the-star.co.ke
IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati has issued fresh five demands to French technology firm OTMorpho.
The demands come after signing a new contract on Thursday to manage results transmission during the October 26 repeat polls.
While responding to a letter by the firm’s vice president and general manager, Africa and the Middle East, Olivier Charlanes, Chebukati demanded total compliance the French firm.
According to the chair, the firm was partly to blame for the annulment of presidential results by the Supreme Court.
He said the refusal to set a local backup system had landed them into problems when they could not fully comply with the Supreme Court orders to open up the servers for scrutiny.
“One of the easiest things to do is setting up ‘real-time master/slave database replication’. We already have the infrastructure in place,” he said.
He also directs the French firm to facilitate the dry-run of results transmission exercise in less than four days affirming that the body is the boss and will define the terms of engagement.
“Dry run is an essential confidence-building measure to assure our stakeholders on the integrity of our system. For example, it can be one kit per polling station per county live on television. Such an exercise well-co-ordinated can take less than two hours,” he argues.
The French firm had earlier on indicated that due to time contraints, it was impossible to conduct a dry-run of results transmission.
Chebukati also insited that OT-Morpho should enhance its data capacity to accommodate the bulk data.
“Please note that since OT-Morpho are the ones who receive the forms 34A first, they must make them public. Text results without forms, shall not be allowed in whatever circumstances,” he said in the letter.