John Githongo Alleges a 56-Man Team Altered Presidential Results in Favor of Ruto
Former journalist and anti-corruption crusader John Mark Githongo has filed an affidavit at the Supreme Court challenging the results of the August 9th presidential election.
Githongo, who is CEO of Inuka Kenya ni Sisi organization, claims that the results of the election were tainted by fraudulent activities in favor of President-elect William Ruto, adding that he has evidence from a whistleblower that the results were fraudulently exaggerated, suppressed, and substituted.
He submits that on August 18th, he was introduced to a young man in Nairobi who said he had "a matter of national importance he wished to discuss." The man who was "visibly tense and terrified" revealed the truth about how the 9th respondent (Ruto) won the election.
"He revealed to me utterly shocking details of how he together with others, were involved in a large scale, well-orchestrated fraudulent scheme that enabled them to interfere with and compromise with the IEBC electoral data transmission system," read part of the petition.
Githongo says the man admitted he was part of a team of 56 people known as "The Team" whose work was to alter Form 34As before sending them to the IEBC portal.
The whistleblower and nine others allegedly served as supervisors, while the remaining 46 were given access to the manipulating entries. Their work was to obtain Forms 34A from KIEMS kits, editing them, and uploading them to the IEBC portal.
Other supervisors included Dennis Itumbi, Morris Mutegi, Davis Chirchir, Jackson Kandi, Baby Serge, and Kibyegon, according to court documents.
Githongo alleges that the team had access to IEBC's back-end servers which were working in tandem with Smartmatic, the UK-based company awarded the tender to provide technology for the election.
Githongo claims to have a video of the testimony but will not reveal it until he appears in court. He also stated that will conceal the man’s face and distort his voice for the sake of his safety.