Venezuelan Jose Camargo Decided Kenya's President-Elect, Raila Lawyers Tell the Supreme Court
Lawyers representing Raila Odinga in the presidential petition on Friday demonstrated to the court how a Venezuelan national allegedly tampered with Forms 34A on the IEBC server.
Lawyers Paul Mwangi and Julie Soweto showed the Supreme Court judges how one Form 34A they found in the IEBC portal was tampered with and had some numbers changed.
They displayed a Form 34A bearing the name of Jose Camargo at the top left corner of the form. Camargo was among the three Venezuelan nationals arrested at JKIA on July 21st while carrying election materials and later deported.
“We believe these are the fingerprints of one of the suspects of the theft of this election…,” lawyer Mwangi told the court.
Advocate Soweto managed to download the said file from Gicharaigu Primary School 02 in Kangema, Murang’a County from the IEBC portal live in court.
“When we go to the bombshell itself, the top left-hand corner of the form, we were told by Mr Gumbo there were no foreigners in this election, we were told the foreigners left before August 8th, we were told they did not even have access to maintain the server…” said Soweto.
“At the top left-hand corner is the name of one of the Venezuelans Jose Camargo, this is the person who decided the president-elect of this country. He is the one who was interfering with the forms, a crump was left by God’s grace, we found something… we didn’t make this up, we were told we made this up. This is how the staging, the changes were happening.”
She went on to indicate that the IEBC stamp on the form looked superimposed and also a sign of tampering with the numbers.
“If we sum up the total votes, we get 316. The total votes cast according to this particular form is 321, different from what we have just seen. The rejected votes are 4, which means already by calculation, there is a problem. A close scrutiny of the form shows that the number was probably 455 and the 5 is actually similar to figures written in the votes cast. But somebody or somehow, that figure has been changed to make it look like 488,” he added.
The lawyer further showed two Forms 34A from Mt. Elgon and Nyeri polling stations that have similar serial numbers F230450M00204133.
“This is the same KIEMS kit one from Mt Elgon 1000 kilometres from Nyeri town two hours later, how is that possible? Each polling station had its own unique Kiems kit which was supposed to transmit its own unique address…" Soweto noted.