The Azimio La Umoja team has written to ICC demanding the enquiries into situation in Kenya after 2022 general election.
In the letter written by Azimio La Umoja advocate Paul Mwangi, Azimio details that president William Ruto was controversially announced as the winner of the Presidential Election.
Azimio points fingers at the technology used saying it was at the centre of concerns regarding the integrity of the elections.
“Smartmatics International Limited Holdings B.V, a controversial international company that is a voting technology supplier, had been contracted by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to manage the 2022 elections.” The letter read in part.
Mwangi pointed out that media reports showed that the company had been involved in manipulation of elections in other countries.
“From the very start, Smartmatics was accused of subterfuge and intention to manipulate the
elections.”
He recalled the controversial three Venezuelan nationals who were arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi with IEBC election materials that they were said to possess illegally. “It was established they worked for Smartmatics.”
Mwangi details that at the Supreme Court, the issue of technology centered on Smurtmatics and in particular the activities of its agents who were said to have illegally accessed the IEBC servers during the electoral period.
Evidence was presented to court in the form of a report from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation regarding the activities of the three agents of Smartmatics arrested at the airport: Jose Camargo, Joel Gustavo and Salvador Javier.
“The report showed that Jose Camargo was a
systems administrator in the entire IEBC ICT System and could remotely access any database
and add, delete, edit or manipulate data.”
According to Azimio the report showed that a total of twenty-one (21) people had similar administrative rights; Nineteen (19) of these were foreigners and two (2) were locals.
Other evidence presented to court by the petitioners was their report on the court mandated scrutiny held from 31″ August to 1″ September.
The report gave evidence of computer log-ins given by IEBC itself that showed that at least four (4) foreigners were online the IEBC System where they were deleting and uploading documents.
An order was issued by the Supreme Court directing IEBC o grant access to the servers for the parties to serutinize its contents. Smartmatics refused to grant access to the said servers and said that such access would be an infringement to its property rights.
The Supreme Court refused to order them to grant the access. On the 5 of September 2022, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the election of William Ruto as the 5t President of the Republic of Kenya.
On or about January 18h 2023, a whistleblower working at the IEBC, came forward with evidence of fraud and manipulation in the 2022 elections.
The whistleblower’s report indicated that fabricated results were relcased to the public to the effect that President William Ruto’s garnered 50.49% of the votes and Raila Odinga garnered 48.5% of the votes.
However. according to the whistleblower’s release, 59% of the results of the constituencies could not be verified.
“The documents provided by the whistleblower indicate that Raila Odinga garnered 8,170, 353 votes which presents 57.3% while president william Ruto garnered 5,915,973 votes which represents 41.66% of the votes.” The letter read.
The whistleblowers release further stipulates that the illegal entities were set up at the IEBC data transmission center’s back office to convert the original form 34B from its original JPEG format to PDF.
Furthermore, the whistleblower states that forms 34A of Books 2 were primarily used whenever forms 34A of Book I were exhausted at the polls and that the original forms were converted to PNG in order to change the background watermarks.
This is in blatant disregard of the rights of Kenyans to a free and fair elections and it is violation of the electoral procedures since the tampering gave President William Ruto an advantage over Raila Odinga.
This illegality was done in the full knowledge of the leadership of the IEBC. As a result of the whistleblower’s release, Raila Odinga’s party Azimio La Umoja Coalition, demanded for opening of the servers to ascertain the declared presidential results.
The IEBC have neglected/refused and or failed to comply.
The letter called on ICC to take action against the IG for overseeing the police brutality against harmless demonstrators.
Also, Azimio called on enquiries on the attack on members of the Azimio and its leaders; maiming and killing of protesters, establishment of rogue police squads to execute Azimio boss and invasion properties belonging to Azimio leaders.
The inspector of police has been named as the person behind maiming and assassination attempt on Azimio’s supportors and leaders.
