The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) yesterday grilled three Kenya Kwanza polling agents for allegedly hacking into the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) servers during the recently concluded General Election.
The three, Nicholas Kipkoskei, Geoffrey Koech, and Shadrack Rutto, formally requested DCI through their lawyer Nelson Havi, who then requested detectives summon them through his firm.
“For the purpose of our investigations, kindly avail the below-stated persons for statement recording on August 30 at the DCI Nairobi region headquarters,” the investigator stated.
Earlier Havi had contested the summons, claiming his clients’ lives were in danger.
“Due to the safety concerns of our clients following the abduction of their colleagues upon acceding to similar requests, we have been instructed to collect the two laptops on their behalf. For the same reason, if the two are required in furtherance of any criminal investigations, please, serve formal summons for their attendance upon us. We will bring them to your offices,” he added to the DCI in a letter dated August 29.
Havi highlighted that Kipkosgei had turned in his laptop, a Lenovo T480S with the serial number PC0YHJ4B, to the office of the Deputy Inspector General, Administration Police Service Noor Gabow, which was then located at the Bomas of Kenya.