Senator Boni Khalwale.Photo/ kenyapoa.worldpress.comKakamega Senator Boni Khalwale has told the IEBC Kenyans now look up it to conduct elections free of suspicion following Friday’s court ruling in which NASA’s petition seeking to block the use of manual back up in the August 8 general election was thrown out.

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Khalwale said it’s now up to the electoral body to give Kenyans confidence that the election would free, fair and transparent.

“The courts have finally spoken about the ballot papers and manual backup,” he posted on his official Twitter account.

“IEBC, it is all in your hands. You will either make or break Kenya.”

NASA suffered a setback on Friday as the High Court threw out a petition in which the opposition coalition was seeking to block the use of manual back up in the August 8 general election.

The opposition had attempted to compel the IEBC to exclusively use the electronic system in the election, but the court said that would throw the election into disarray.

A three-Judge bench of the High Court agreed with President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party that the electronic system can fail, as it did during the 2013 General Election, and an analysis from other countries reveals that technology is susceptible to hackers, software bugs, outages or intentional or accidental failure.

In their findings, Judges George Kimondo, Hedwig Ong’udi and Alfred Mabeya gave the IEBC a go ahead to use a manual back up should the electronic voting system during the election fail.

The judges were of the view that it, would, therefore, not be feasible to declare that the election to be held in 16 days, be exclusively electronic.