Chiloba conspired with OT-Morpho to inflate cost of fresh polls - Mudavadi

NASA co-principal Musalia Mudavadi has accused IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba of conspiring with OT-Morpho to inflate the cost of conducting fresh elections.

"Jana, Chiloba aliweka sahihi ya pili na OT-Morpho ati wasimamie uchaguzi...tuko tayari kurudia uchaguzi lakini tunataka yeye na wenzake waende nyumbani," he said.

(Yesterday, Chiloba signed a fresh deal with OT Morpho for the supply of technology for the fresh poll...we are ready for elections but he has to leave IEBC)

Mudavadi told mourners at a funeral in Serem, Vihiga county on Saturday that the poll agency CEO signed a Sh2.4 billion contract with the French firm.

He said the Opposition will not accept a situation where the electoral commission squanders taxpayer's money.

The NASA campaign chairman said it is unacceptable for OT-Morpho to be paid Sh6.4 billion for conducting an election that parties have not agreed upon.

"We will not accept that IEBC squanders tax payers money without justifications. The wastage is one of the reasons we cannot allow these officials to stay at the commission."

'DEMANDS'

In a statement to newsrooms, Mudavadi demanded that IEBC and OT-Morpho explain to Kenyans how the figure was arrived at.

He said the two have pulled another expensive fraud on Kenyans even before they can address the irregularities and illegalities in the August 8 elections.

"Furthermore, we are aware the awarded sum is way above the Sh800 million that the IEBC technical committee recommended," he said.

"Kenyans should be excused if they were to conclude that the offensive amounts are being paid as a bribe to OT-Morpho for a shady job of using technology to tilt elections in favour of Jubilee in the same way it did last month."

Mudavadi also demanded that the AG Githu Muigai and Treasury CS Henry Rotich tell Kenyans on what basis they approved this fraud," he said.

The Opposition who have been against the firm said they had "concrete evidence" to implicate Safran OT Morpho in the stealing of August elections.

NASA, whose presidential candidate is Raila Odinga, wants two French companies investigated for allegedly interfering with the transparency of the August 8 general election.

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But the French digital security company that was in charge of IEBC servers dismissed claims that the system was hacked.

OT-Morpho, through its Africa and Middle East director Olivier Charlanes, said the system used in the annulled August 8 polls was not tampered with.

Read: IEBC server was not hacked, says French KIEMS supplier

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