NASA welcomes the ongoing discussions with IEBC Chairman Wafula Webukati and his colleagues into the inquiry into the completely distorted figures that have been posted on the IEBC website. We are pleased with the Chairman’s assurance that the Commission will investigate the hacking and results transmission issues that NASA has identified as the cause of the distortions in the posted figures.
In the 2013 election, Kenyans will recall that the electoral commission refused to meet with CORD to receive evidence of the many voting irregularities in its possession.
In our meeting today, we demanded that the Commission immediately halt the streaming of these so- called provisional presidential election figures. The chairman stopped short in his press conference to call for that. The national media in fact briefly removed these “results” from their television screens but then resumed the streaming.
The only results that should be posted are those verified and backed by Form 34, which contains the signatures of parties’ agents at the polling sites. Results transmitted on any other basis have no basis in law. This is also part of the verification the chairman also spoke about.
We have also pointed to the bizarre phenomenon that Uhuru Kenyatta’s “lead” stayed a consistent 11 percent ahead of NASA flagbearer Raila Odinga throughout the evening! It never went up to 12 or 13 percent or down to 9 or 10 percent. In the hacking that was described in detail in our earlier statement, we pointed out that an algorithm was introduced which basically amounted to a formula creating a fixed gap in favour of Uhuru Kenyatta.
There are of course other serious anomalies that we have pointed out that distorted the figures of the presidential poll. But those above rise to a level of distortion and fraud that require the complete negation of the figures that have been posted.
NASA therefore again wants to emphasize its demand that the IEBC streaming of the presidential poll figures be immediately abandoned until these anomalies, which have made meaningless the electoral process, are investigated and resolved. As Mr Odinga said today, “the electoral fraud and fabrication of results was massive and extensive.”
We also point out again that our own tallying shows that Raila Odinga is almost a million votes ahead of Uhuru Kenyatta.
In the meantime, we ask our supporters to stay calm and not take any actions that would provoke the use of force that the State would be altogether happy to unleash.
Salim Lone, Adviser
NASA flagbearer Raila Odinga