The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commision has finally broken their silence after the supreme court full ruling on the annulment of the 2017 presidential election.
IEBC took to Twitter earlier today and reiterated that they were currently analysing the detailed supreme court ruling and will give an official statement soon. They also indicated that they will find a way to make the supreme court recommendations as they deem fit.
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The supreme court however indicated that they did not find any evidence of criminal wrong doing by the IEBC chairman, Wafula Chebukati , IEBC commissioners ,secretariat and staff.
The court found that the errors were systematic and IEBC staff were not accountable since there was no substantial proof that indicated so.
The court went on and directed IEBC to conduct fresh presidential elections in strict conformity to the law within stipulated timelines.
The court however criticized IEBC on whether they transmitted the form 34As to the national tallying centre as required by section 39(1C) of the elections act. The commision was also criticized on failing to comply with the court order to provide read only access to their servers for proper examination of the database logs which would have provided basis on whether the petitioner's claims of hacking were true or false.
This lead to the conclusion that the the commissions IT system was infiltrated and data distorted or the officials themselves interfered with the system's data.
The petitioner's lead counsel James Orengo finished by urging the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigate and find the culprits in the commission that lead to the bungling of the election.
