The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) refused to give access to its servers as per the Supreme Court directive.
This is after the Supreme Court ordered the electoral commission to grant Raila Odinga access to the technology used in transmitting results at the IEBC National Tallying Centre at Bomas of Kenya.
Moreover, Senior Counsel James Orengo in his submission shortly after the hearing resumed at 2pm told the court that IEBC gave restricted access to only one of its eight servers.
“We have been given restricted access only to the result transmission system, and it has not been granted yet, to only one server. It is established that the IEBC has eight servers,” Orengo said.
Furthermore, Orengo informed the seven-member bench that they had written to the Judiciary registrar Anne Amadi over the issue and prayed that the court intervenes.
While responding to that, Supreme Court judge Isaac Lenaola said that the court was aware of the issue and was following up.
“We are aware and we are following it up. As far as we know when we got out of here, the exercise had commenced, there was an agreement on how to access the server that had been given,” said Justice Lenaola.
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Similarly, the Supreme Court had ordered the electoral commission to provide supervised access the servers used to capture images of Forms 34C at the commission’s nerve center during a Pre-Trial conference on the presidential election petition.
“That IEBC be compelled to give the applicants supervised access to any server(s) at the National Tallying Centre for storing and transmitting voting information and which are forensically imaged to capture a copy of the Form 34C which is the total votes cast,” read part of the court documents.
Likewise, the court ordered IEBC to provide copies of its technology system security policy, which included their password policy, password matrix, and system administration password owners.
