Nasa Principals during a retreat in Kilifi County. [Photo/nation.co.ke]
The National Super Alliance (Nasa) is reportedly finalising on setting up its August 8 general election tallying center in Nairobi.
The Opposition coalition had earlier indicated that they will have their own tallying center and will get verified results from their agents at the polling centers in a bid to avoid rigging by the electoral body IEBC and their opponents, Jubilee.
The Standard reports that Nasa is conducting final tests to the electronic equipment in private home located in the suburbs of Nairobi.
The newspaper reports that the home, located in Runda, is owned by Machakos Senator Johnson Muthama, who is a member of the Nasa technical committee.
Senator Muthama. [Photo/capitalfm.co.ke]
The home, which has since been converted into offices, is well secured, with guards from a private firm conducting regular patrols to avoid any security breach.
The computers in the Nasa tallying centre will be interlinked with other centres in Tanzania and Germany.
“The three centres will be interlinked but protected by a firewall. The objective is to make them impenetrable so that they are not accessed by local communication service providers and the intelligence community,” a source at the Nasa Presidential Secretariat told The Standard.
Nasa, with Raila Odinga as the presidential candidate, will use communication experts from Kenya, Germany and Ghana to help maintain the computer network and equipment.
Raila with his running mate, Kalonzo Musyoka, being cleared by the IEBC to vie.
“The centre in Runda will collate the results in real-time and then feed data to the two tallying centres in Tanzania and Germany,” reports The Standard.
Raila is a close ally of Tanzania President John Magufuli, hence the choice of the neighboring country.
The Leader of Majority in the National Assembly Aden Duale not long ago said the government was aware of Nasa’s link with Tanzania.
“Nasa is planning to set up a tallying centre in Tanzania with the aim to hack the IEBC system and steal votes,” Duale claimed. The opposition has said they will do everything possible to curb rigging.