The use of technology in Kenya’s General Election has once again threatened to throw the polls into disrepute after opposition leader Raila Odinga claimed that the election agency’s computer system was hacked to give incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta a strong lead.
Just like in the 2013 polls, hackers gained entry into the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission database and manipulated the results, Mr Odinga said, terming the exercise a ‘‘fraud.’’
