Kenya is sliding toward a potentially violent political crisis over opposition allegations that hackers interfered with provisional vote tallies from Tuesday’s general elections.
The normally bustling streets of Nairobi, the capital and business hub of East Africa’s biggest economy, were largely deserted Thursday as residents stayed home bracing for trouble and security forces deployed in the city center.
Tension was heightened after the election commission released initial unofficial results showing President Uhuru Kenyatta with a commanding lead over his main rival, Raila Odinga.
Odinga described the results as “fake” and said hackers gained access to the election computer system by using the identity of the commission’s technology manager who was murdered in late July. The chairman of the Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission, Wafula Chebukati, said Thursday that hackers tried and failed to breach the voting system.
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Kenya sliding as Hacking and Fraud claims threaten to spark election crisis
The normally bustling streets of Nairobi, the capital and business hub of East Africa’s biggest economy, were largely deserted Thursday as residents stayed home bracing for trouble and security forces deployed in the city center.
Tension was heightened after the election commission released initial unofficial results showing President Uhuru Kenyatta with a commanding lead over his main rival, Raila Odinga.
Odinga described the results as “fake” and said hackers gained access to the election computer system by using the identity of the commission’s technology manager who was murdered in late July. The chairman of the Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission, Wafula Chebukati, said Thursday that hackers tried and failed to breach the voting system.
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Kenya sliding as Hacking and Fraud claims threaten to spark election crisis
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