A witness on Wednesday shocked the Kisumu High Court after
he declared that he hacked the IEBC servers during that August 8 General
Election.
Speaking during the hearing of a petition filed by ex-Kisumu
Governor Jack Ranguma against Professor Anyang Nyong’o, IT expert Levy Otieno
Oduor revealed that he accessed the IEBC servers during the election where he
noticed that some files had been deleted.
“When I accessed the server I realised that there was the
deletion of files which were form 37A which gave room for fresh ones to be
uploaded,” Mr Otieno was quoted by the Nation.
Responding to questions on who benefitted from the hacking,
the witness stated that Prof Nyong’o was the major beneficiary of the
malpractice.
According to Mr Otieno, the person he found performing the
alleged ‘fraud’ used the login ‘nmigot@iebc.org.ke’.
“I don’t know the relationship between the person who logged
in and the respondent, but what I know is there was a Nicholas Migot in Prof
Nyong’o’s campaigns,” Otieno stated.
The IT expert further noted that he had been given the
passwords for the server by a contact at the polls agency but did not mention
any names.
“I was not alone while accessing the server. I had a contact
who was helping me. I used FileZilla to access logs,” he revealed.
The presiding Judge, David Majanja, asked the witness to
write down in confidence the name of his contact at the IEBC, which he gave to
the court.
Prof Nyongo’s lawyer James Orengo gave Mr Otieno a hard time
when he asked him to provide evidence of hacking into the system which the
witness failed to provide.
“The beauty of
science is that it leaves a trail of the transaction. What footprint did you
leave when you accessed the server?” Orengo asked the witness who remained
silent.
Mr Otieno was testifying in support of the petition filed by
former Governor Ranguma against the IEBC and Nyong’o.
Ranguma wants the court to overturn Nyong’o’s victory.
