NASA Presidential campaign manager, Musalia Mudavadi address the press at past. [Photo|Nasa coalition]NASA has revealed that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and French Technology firm OT-Morpho signed a contract, two days ago.The contract will see the single-sourced French firm paid Sh2.4 billion to provide electoral management system for the new presidential elections in October, according to NASA.Presidential campaign manager, Musalia Mudavadi said the two have pulled another expensive fraud on Kenyan tax payers even before the IEBC and OT-Morpho can address numerous questions regarding irregularities and illegalities in the August 8 elections."The contract signed on September 28 is just about Sh1.4 billion less than the cost of similar IT services for the August 8 general elections. The August elections involved thousands of candidates running for six different positions for which OT-Morpho was paid Ksh3.8 billion," said Mudavadi.He noted the Sh2.4 billion contract for an election involving only one position and two candidates is not only outrageous but an act of fraud, deliberate theft of public funds and bribery."Furthermore, we are aware the Ksh2.4 billion awarded sum is way above the Ksh800 million that the IEBC technical committee recommended."In a statement, Saturday, Mudavadi indicated Kenyans should be excused if they were to conclude that the offensive amounts were being paid as a bribe to OT-Morpho for a shady job of using technology to tilt elections in favour of Jubilee in the "same way it did last month."He disclosed that Attorney General Prof Githu Muigai and Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich approved the colossal sums. "Of course, part of the huge sum may as well find its way to IEBC and senior government officials as commission as happened in the Chickengate scandal."This new contract comes even before the French government, which is a shareholder in OT-Morpho, responds to the issues NASA raised about the unethical conduct of the firm in Kenya."Until the French absolve themselves, the award further confirms that OT-Morpho is firmly part and parcel of a criminal enterprise that has hijacked the Kenyan electoral system with the sole aim of profiteering and frustrating the democratic ambitions of the people of Kenya.NASA objects firmly to this criminality," noted Mudavadi.NASA demanded that IEBC and OT-Morpho explain to Kenyans how the figure was arrived at, and Muigai alongside Rotich tell Kenyans on what basis they approved "this fraud."The Opposition reiterated that IEBC lacks good faith and is still hell bent on committing crimes against Kenyans in collusion with OT-Morpho. "As this contract demonstrates, we cannot expect free, fair, credible and verifiable elections conducted in conformity with the Constitution and the laws of Kenya," concluded the ANC party leader and NASA co-principal.

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