Supreme Court Judge Isaac Lenaola and Raila Odinga’s lawyer Philip Murgor have clashed over the scrutiny of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) servers’ completion.
Murgor claimed that the electoral commission had refused to grant them access to only one server.
“It is still with regard to what we consider non-compliance with order number two regarding access to the servers, I wish to report as of this morning nothing has changed IEBC continues to refuse to provide a forensic image of all eight servers,” he said.
“With the limited access provided yesterday to server number 5 our team was able to observe a large number of deletions. We suspect and are concerned that the delay on part of IEBC is to delete vital data. Finally when times ran out not to provide the information we require or provide logs that are not useful to anybody,” Murgor added.
Senior Counsel, James Orengo asserted that the commission had denied agents from Azimio One Kenya access to its systems.
However, Lenaola stated that the electoral agency allowed access to the server and the procedure was complete.
He indicated that the court had been briefed that the compliance exercise at the commission was completed last night.
“We (judges) have received a full report from the technical team that was leading the exercise at IEBC. We have been informed that the process of compliance was completed last night, as far as our team is concerned, the process at the IEBC is finished and the process at Forodha House is coming to an end shortly,” he said.
Yesterday, Orengo claimed during the Supreme Court hearing that despite the Court providing explicit directions earlier, the staff at the IEBC headquarters in the Anniversary Towers refused to let them in on the grounds that they needed authorization.
“My lady Chief Justice and members of the court, we are also having difficulties with the orders relating to the inspection of the servers. We have been given restricted access only to the results transmission system. It is established that IEBC has eight servers yet we have access to one only. We have written to the registrar of the court in the hope that this court solves this matter as quickly as possible,” Orengo lamented.