‘Chebukati committed treason': Raila, Karua detail how August 9th election was bungled

Azimio presidential candidate Raila Odinga and his running mate Martha Karua now claim the presidential election had been rigged way before August 9th.

In sworn affidavits filed in the Supreme Court, Raila and Karua cited external infiltration, a complicit IEBC Chairman and doctored forms 34A; adding that Wafula Chebukati masterminded the subversion of the will of the people, accusing them of treason.

Raila and Karua claim 19 foreigners and two Kenyans had access to the IEBC system compromising the integrity of the election systems.

In a six-page affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court, Raila states that he was aggrieved by the declaration of William Ruto as president-elect with 7.1 million votes against his 6.9 million votes.

And in a detailed 45-page affidavit, Azimio's deputy presidential candidate Martha Karua claimed there were 21 individuals who had access to the IEBC system compromising the security and integrity of the presidential election.

Karua stated that out of the 21 individuals, 19 were foreigners and two were Kenyans.

Karua claimed the arrest of three Venezuela nationals at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport before the elections, had exposed the foreign plot and its players.

The three foreigners were allegedly found with crucial electoral materials including electronic devices and access to IEBC systems according to a forensic audit conducted by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.

With alleged access to the back end of the IEBC system, Karua claims in her affidavit that IEBC chairman masterminded what Azimio terms as staging, whereby forms 34A from polling stations were intercepted, temporarily held at the external address, doctored and manipulated before being re-uploaded into the IEBC public portal.

As such, Karua says on the 11th of August in a span of 9 minutes the commission public portal received a record 11,000 forms 34A. Karua claims the system was designed to allow staging and manipulation.

The Azimio running mate submitted that the underhand deals at IEBC rested at Chebukati’s doorstep. Karua indicated the IEBC chairman willfully set out to subvert the will of the people and overthrew the constitutional order in declaring Ruto as president-elect in a process that was bungled.

Karua accuses Chebukati of treason on account of attempting to overthrow the constitutional order and the sovereign will of the people as expressed through the ballot.

The split at the commission found a place in Karua’s affidavit with the Azimio deputy leader stating that the disowning of Chebukati’s declaration by four commissioners demonstrated that there was no consensus within the commission on who won the presidential election and thereby Ruto’s victory, declaration and gazettement was invalid, null and void.