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Commissioner Nyang'aya: Foreigner, 3 IEBC staff accessed server and tampered with results
IEBC Commissioner Justus Nyang'aya briefing journalists at Bomas of Kenya on August 4, 2022. Nyang'aya has claimed that a foreigner managed to access the electoral body's server and pull down the results posted.
Photo credit: Evans Habil | Nation Media Group
What you need to know:
- Mr Justus Nyang'aya said a foreigner identified as Godino Omor was able to access the server and pull down the results posted.
- He said the foreigner would access the server using ID '0', pull down the results that had been uploaded from polling stations and later upload fresh ones.
- Mr Nyang'aya said the foreigner was active from June 1, until the after the election and that he was busy on the IEBC server at night.
An Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commissioner has claimed that a foreigner managed to access the electoral body's server, buttressing allegations that poll results were interfered with.
Mr Justus Nyang'aya, one of the commissioners who disowned the results as announced by IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati on August 15 said a foreigner identified as Godino Omor was able to access the server and pull down the results posted.