Slow Election Result = Safaricom

I thought Safaricom was one of the firms providing reliable Bandwith... I believe Election result might affect their business in future if they are the ones to blame

The IEBC is ultimately responsible and blaming suppliers will not in any way absolve them of the blame.

The following issues point to an organization that was poorly run and unprepared for elections;

1. Some laptops had not been charged and therefore EVID could not be used. You dont assume that polling clerks most of whom are temporary employees will understand such things. You order them to follow instructions to the letter and punish those who do not comply.

2. Some voters posted on facebook that their names had not been cancelled on the manual registers. It is for the IEBC to ponder why that would have been the case.

3. A part from the 2 cass, 1 in Kitui and 1 in Mombasa, Bomet and Embakasi East have been pointed out as 2 areas where a polling clerk was caught handing out voters more than 1 ballot paper for an elective post. I have not seen an IEBC advisory to the effect that those cases are being investigated.

4. If you watched the results tally on Monday night, you will have noted that at some point Bomet, Baringo and Makueni had 2 sets of results each with each set showing a different winner. That points to the possibility of the system having been hacked.

5. TV stations showed an empty tallying centre for a consistuency whose results had not yet been transmitted, where were the election officials then?

When an organization fails, the contibuting factors are either, People, Processes, systems or external events.

In the case of IEBC, all 4 seem to have failed as follows;

1. People- We attempted to fix election problems by acquiring systems but people's integrity was never fixed. Kivuitu's team was incapacitated by the integrity of commissioners appointed close to the election date and some corrupt poll officials.

2. Systems - IEBC should have independently acquired, tested,retested and developed maintenance plans for its system. I believe that they did not perform enough testing nor did they perform a rigorous IT risk assessment.

3. Processes- The IEBC processes were not uniformly implemented, for example, some polling centres had voter streams set up using surname while others used first names. The process of stamping ballots was hampered by some clerks sharing rubber stamps ending in some not being stamped. Some polling stations had a clerk assisting voters place ballots in the right box. Others did not. The large number of rejected ballots is a testament to process failure. What safeguards were there to protect data submitted by returning officers from being intercepted and altered? As far as I know, none.

4. External events - Based on comments above, IEBC over relied on Safaricom (whose network has challenges in certain remote regions) and Next technologies. I wouldnt blame those 2 though because IEBC seems not to have been very clear in what it needed from either party. Additionally, IEBC should have performed user acceptance testing for all systems/services/hosting provided by external parties.

That said, let us all be patient and peaceful. Let us avoid the harmful banter either on this site or social networks. We will all win regardless of who wins the election. Our faith, hope and dreams will be rewarded if the constitution is implemented with fidelity regardless of who wins.

God bless Kenya!

you are a smart person...IEBC should hire you asap...I am amazed

Was IEBC Servers and the IEBC vote tallying computer system attacked using a West Red - October virus to sabotage the election?

Read this article:

Kenya Decides as West Intel Deploy Red-October to Sabotage
March 7 | Posted by David Goldman | Geopolitik, Intelligence News, Military Intelligence Events that have followed the successful Monday election signal a trend intended to create a negative public policy on the election and IEBC credibility.

The Safaricom Virtual Private Network that runs on Oracle and a 3-tier Cisco Network was supposed to be tamper proof when supporting IEBC servers.

Safaricom, which is owned by Vodafone, a British giant telecoms company data and VPN servers supporting the IEBC VPN came under Intelligence Service scrutiny.

The IEBC Servers and the IEBC vote tallying computer system disc-space completely malfunctioned and collapsed failing to respond in correct downtime.

In the same week, over 3500 British troops landed in Kenya and headed for the Laikipia training grounds where they undergo final training before deployment.

Laikipia is Kenya Defense Forces most heavily guarded and highly equipped airbase and military facility in Kenya since the Kenya Airforce has its main airpower stationed here.

The British High Commissioner to Kenya, Christian Turner through proxies particularly Maina Kiai began lobbying the inclusion of spoilt votes in final tally besides attempting to delay the presidential total tally announcement.

The National Security Service quickly intervened and stopped the IEBC from making more use of the Electronic vote tallying system.

Kenya’s National Security Service stopped this system for a number of factors including scenarios such as the Safaricom VPN being attacked using a virus to compromise the network capacity.

Strategic Intelligence Service reported that the Red-October virus was used to attack Government of Kenya computer systems by Western spy-agents to mine crucial data.

Was that a test attack in preparation for the main attack on IEBC?
Was the virus deployed through Safaricom VPN for IEBC?
Was the attacker operating from Safaricom Server/Data Center from abroad?

Foreign players particularly the West, to crash the IEBC computer system deployed this same strategy by deploying the virus through the VPN infrastructure by Safaricom from abroad.

Analysis

The number of rejected votes when the IEBC was using the electronic tallying system was nearly 300,000 at the 5million total votes cast mark, a very significant number that makes a case in the total vote cast.

When IEBC took up the manual tallying system the total number of rejected votes was 39000 at the 4.6million total votes cast mark, this is a disturbing significant decline in the electronic figures compared to the manual figures.

Final tally of rejected votes compared to the electronic reports will quantify if the virus was indeed manipulating the rejected votes tally.

Deployment of viruses from secure computers to network servers was reported by Strategic Intelligence where Western spy agents deployed Red-October to mine vital data from government computer systems and data bases.

Viruses/computer bugs are used to mine and manipulate data from computer networks, servers, and computer memory facilities including data-centers, hence can mine crucial data including emails, conversations, and files.

The virus Red-October may have been deployed alongside another virus to slow down the IEBC servers with the intent of creating scenarios that may create public mistrust.

The objective of such spy involvement is to procure a bias of a public policy of anti-IEBC sentiments wherein, psychologically, the bottled up emotions, erupt after frustrations get to breaking point.

National Security Service moved in to effectively neutralizing this threat by outdoing Western spy agents by directing the immediate use of the manual tallying system, which has demystified the controversial election.

Kenya has also struggled to ensure peace prevails and unity remains at all time high, mocking the West attempts.

Kenya Acquires Deterrent Capability

Kenya is emerging as a secure developed country with effective security institutions particularly the intelligence and military both who have worked tirelessly to preempt neutralize threats on Kenya’s national Security.

Social order/civility has also become a principal in the Kenyan social life whereby, influencing social-discord is impossible hence the relatively calm and peaceful nation.

If this trend goes on, Kenya will eventually reach its bubble and burst to beat countries like South Africa social-economically.
This constant deterrent capability whereby no type of external and internal pressure to divide the multi-ethnic Kenyan society finally secures the Republic of Kenya to one of the most peaceful and rapidly developing economy in Africa, besides becoming a superpower in the region.

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DITTO.


The foreign hand and operatives are so very active at the moment, all manner of attempts at destabilizing at fever pitch.