The High
Court has certified as urgent an application by CORD seeking to compel
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and Safaricom to release
documents the alliance needs for to file a petition on the presidential
election. Justice Isaac Lenaola certified the application as urgent and
directed the petitioner, Eliud Owalo to serve the respondents. The judge
directed the case to be heard on Wednesday.
In the
petition, Owalo wants the court to order the electoral body and mobile phone
service provider to furnish it with documents related to the electronic
tallying process in the recent General Election. CORD coalition led by the PM
and Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka have said they will file a petition
challenging the election of President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate
William Ruto. Owalo claims that IEBC and Safaricom have ignored his request for
the documents despite requests and his willingness to meet the cost of
processing and producing them.
The documents
Owalo wants from IEBC include all Forms 34, 35, and 36 from all polling
stations and constituencies all over the country in relation to the
presidential elections and all the results that were declared electronically at
the Bomas Tallying Centre. The petitioner is also seeking the log files for all
short messages that were declared electronically received from Safaricom, all
software contracts between the IEBC and all firms that provided software
services to them in connection with the just concluded general elections. The
petitioner also wants the serial numbers of all handheld transmission devises
that were actually configured and made ready for use as aforesaid and the
constituencies in which they were meant to be used and serial numbers of all
handheld transmission devises that were configured and the constituencies in
which they were meant to be used.
Other
documents include the Green Book, a provisional register of all registered
voters, and the final register of all registered voters. Owalo wants the court
to compel Safaricom to release the numbers of all handheld transmission devices
that were used to electronically transfer date from polling stations to the
tallying centre and the print out of all messages that were sent through all
handheld transmission devices that were used to electronically transfer data from
the polling stations. The petitioner also wants all contracts signed between
Safariom and IEBC in connection with the just concluded general election and a
record of all information transmitted to IEBC Server on the March 4 and 5 2013.
Wahome Thuku
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