Supreme Court: IEBC now grants Raila access to all its servers

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) now says it has complied with the Supreme Court order to grant parties in the presidential election petition access to its servers.

This comes following a standoff witnessed on Wednesday after the commission allegedly refused to give Raila Odinga’s team access to all its servers.

“Following the Supreme Court order, IEBC has granted access to the parties to access the servers and the scrutiny exercise is ongoing,” the commission said in the evening.

The Supreme Court had previously granted Odinga access to the technology used in transmitting results at the IEBC National Tallying Centre at Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi.

The court also ordered IEBC to provide copies of its technology system security policy, which included their password policy, password matrix, and system administration password owners.

The ruling also granted access to the servers to petitioners Youth Advocacy for Africa (YAA) Peter Kirika, human rights activist Khelef Khalifa, George Osewe, Ruth Mumbi, and Grace Kamau.

However, according to Senior Counsel James Orengo, the commission gave restricted access to only one of its eight servers.

“We have been given restricted access only to the result transmission system, and it has not been granted yet, to only one server. It is established that the IEBC has eight servers,” Orengo told the court in his submission on Wednesday.

Orengo told the seven-member bench led by Chief Justice Martha Koome that they had written to the Judiciary Registrar Anne Amadi over the issue and prayed that the court intervene.

In response, Supreme Court Judge Isaac Lenaola noted that the court was aware of the issue and was following up.