I beg to disagree. IEBC just handed Safaricom a single sourced contract to deliver the same service under discussion.
For NASA:
1. There is a crime for which individuals have to pay. If they are not held to account, others or the same people will repeat. There has to be a price for breaking the law even if the accomplice is the government!
2. The Kenyan corporate world has come to take sleaze, corruption and law breaking as part and parcel of the business culture. We have as telecoms company that aids in rigging elections; provides private mobile phone data of the opposition to their rivals and when it fails; Mines the mobile data of judges so that they can be blackmailed and harassed. This has to stop like fifteen years ago
Omollo,
I really think NASA are wasting precious time and resources on this issue(of mobile providers). There are real issues with IEBC transmission and safaricom(whatever else one may think of it) is not one of them. IEBC is entirely responsible for whatever problems(acknowledged and unacknowledged) that they had with transmission. Unless and until they(IEBC) blame a third party, I think it's misguided to stop laser focusing on them.
I have no reason to doubt that forms were transmitted. After that, when the data is within IEBC's possession, is where the problems arise. All major contractors thus far seem to confirm that and have not reported any problems on their end. One of NASA's irreducible minimums ought to have been a full accounting of what happened and what is so different this time round that it wont happen again in the next round.
That said, I would be shocked if any further clarity was to come from IEBC - with the possible exception of a court order. And we know they can defy those with impunity. So they will hold elections without having accounted for the main thing that got them nullified in the first place. They get to eat their cake and have it. It's an ugly situation.
I am not denying that there maybe some shady stuff going on with safaricom.
But let's get back to IEBC. The core problem is there were too many 34As missing in action on the material day. This is IEBC's responsibility. They have not blamed anyone else. We also have safaricom and morpho explicitly and specifically denying anything went wrong with their stuff.
The scenario that happened on election day, can easily be replicated
without the collusion of either safaricom or morpho. In fact, it is more difficult, in my opinion, to involve either of these other players. You have to keep the circle as small as possible. That is why I think even Chebukati was clueless about what is going on.
We are talking about making some files disappear or not appear where they are needed. Where does safaricom feature in that apart from the fact that someone got into a VPN on their bandwidth?
