NASA leadership address the press, September 26, 2017. [Photo|The ODM party]The National Super Alliance, has put telecommunications company Safaricom, on spot, saying it conspired to rig in the August 8 general elections.NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga, exposed, what he said was Safaricom’s link in this conspiracy alongside Safran firm, adding that it did not resolve the internal contradictions that emerged in the conduct of last elections and is not ready for another any time soon."Contrary to claims by Deputy President William Ruto that IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba had responded adequately to the myriad issues raised by Mr Chebukati, he, in fact, has not. Chiloba’s response appears to have raised more questions than answers at the IEBC," he said.Safaricom was contracted by the IEBC to transmit election results from the KIEMS kits at the polling stations to the IEBC servers. According to Nasa, all this data was to be conveyed via Virtual Private Network (VPN) in order to ensure that there was no tampering of the results before reaching the servers."Safaricom was thus contracted to provide two exclusive VPNs for this purpose. It has since come to our knowledge that one of these VPNs terminated at a cloud server registered in Spain but operated from France under the control of OT Morpho.""We have the IP addresses and have traced them And the second VPN, was to originate from Safaricom and terminate at the local IEBC server. Both VPNs were fully paid for by the IEBC. However, the VPN from Safaricom terminating locally was never set up," revealed Odinga.Addressing the press, Tuesday, he noted that results from the polling station KIEMS kits were leaving the country but never found their way back to IEBC, and that none of the kits under Safaricom’s network ever got their results onto the IEBC’s public web portal."Furthermore, when purported results started streaming onto the portal without accompanying forms 34A/B, Safaricom’s senior management knew that these results did not come from the KIEMS kits. Why did Safaricom not alert the authorities that there was an illegal activity taking place?" he wondered.Between July 25th and July 27th, the period immediately prior to the disappearance of Acting IEBC ICT Director, Chris Msando, Nasa said, some 100 KIEMS kits were stolen from the IEBC.
"This information was shared with Safaricom. We want Safaricom to tell the country what he did about this development.We are particularly keen to know why the same stolen KIEMS kits were allowed to continue operating on the Safaricom network even the company’s management knew those kits were not under the control of the IEBC."Odinga wondered if the management of Safaricom was aware that the IEBC had not reported this alleged theft of hundreds of KIEMS kits to the authorities."a) Did the management of Safaricom themselves report this theft to the authorities?b) Did the management of Safaricom report the various illegal activities of these KIEMS kits during the election to the authorities?"He maintained that Safaricom must come clean on its role in the conspiracy with Safran and Morpho to allegedly steal the elections.