Chris Msando

Kenyan opposition leader claims murdered election official’s name used to hack election

Kenyan opposition leader has claimed that hackers used the identity of a murdered official to ‘interfere’ with the results of the election. Wednesday’s early results had seen incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta leading Raila Odinga by 54.8% to 44.4%, where Odinga decried the ‘use of computers’ to tamper with the results, describing it as “fake”. In what... Read More

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August 1, 2017

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Head of IT at Kenya’s electoral commission, Msando murdered days to general elections

The man in charge of Kenya’s computerised voting system, Chris Msando has been murdered, days before the general election on August 8. Msando, the electoral commission’s IT manager, had been reported by the BBC to be missing on Friday. “There was no doubt he was tortured and murdered,” said the chairperson of the country’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries... Read More

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