Author: Cyrus

By Caroline Mutoko We live in very interesting times. My eyebrows went up with every piece of breaking news – they are now in the middle of my head:-) 1. Three IEBC presiding officers in Rongai Constituency were charged in a Nakuru court with concealing ballot boxes & papers at their respective stations. 2. Meanwhile, the ICC dropped all charges against Francis Muthaura. 3. We also learnt that CORD will be going to court. I echo Martha Karua who said challenging the results would help “audit the electoral process” and strengthen areas in which IEBC may have failed. I have…

Mr. Isaack Hassan Chairman Independent Elections and Boundaries  Commission University Way, Anniversary Towers,  6th Floor, P.O. Box 45371-00100 Nairobi. Date: 7th March 2012 Dear Sir, MEMORANDUM: ACCOUNTABILITY FOR  AND TRANSPARENCY OF RESULTS VERIFICATION AND PREMATURE CERTIFICATION  AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF ALLEGED OFFICIAL RESULTS WITHOUT PRIMARY DOCUMENTATION (FORM 34) Under the law, when polling stations close, ballots  are counted, verified by presiding officers and political party agents  and the results then posted publicly on the door of the polling stream,  thereafter transmitted electronically for the announcement of provisional  results by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)  at…

Did UHURU Kenyatta Cross the 50%+ 1 vote mark to win in the 1st round as required by the Constitution of Kenya? Go figure: This the information IEBC communicated to the world. Total registered voters: 14,337,399 Total Cast Votes: 12338667 Valid  cast votes: 12222980, 0.9906240277% (99%) Uhuru’s votes: 6173433, 0.5003322482% (50%) Raila’s votes: 5340546, 0.4328300618% (43%) U+R votes: 11513979, 0.93316231% (93%) Others votes: 824688, 0.06683769% (6.68%) Rejected votes: 108375, 0.0087833637% (0.0878%) Voter turnout: 0.8605931243% (86%) REAL FIGURES SHOULD BE: Total registered voters: 14,337,399 Total Cast votes: 12447042 Valid  votes:  12338667 Rejected:    108375 Voter turnout:  0.8681520267 (86.815%) Winner in 1st votes…

NOTE from a source at CORD: On the excel sheet please note the following:   1. The Entries in the Columns for Valid Votes and Votes Cast for each constituency should come directly from the Form 36 2. However, the entries have been summed up as follows:     – Valid Votes (Sum of Results of all the candidates)     – Votes Cast (Sum of Valid Votes + Rejected Votes) 3. The Valid Votes and Votes Cast is a legal entry on Form 36, 34 and others 4. These numbers should be inputed directly from the Form 36…

IEBC chairman has gone on record admitting that their systems were compromised. IEBC chairman in an address to the public at around 6PM admitted that there was a code in the system which was multiplying rejected votes by 8. That revelation is kind of implicating and confirming the allegations that the IEBC system was hacked. How did the rogue line of code which was multiplying results by 8, entered? Who was responsible? You cannot have a code which is not doing the right thing in a system which was supposedly tested by the commission. It means that someone installed an…

Safaricom’s Nzioka Waita was at pains last night trying to make me look like I created the mess they are having with the IEBC in the Results Transmission System (RTS). Nzioka deviated from the official paths without provocations calling me names and desperately trying to say that IEBC is PERFECT, Safaricom is PERFECT and I am the problem. First his history, after campus, Nzioka Waita joined Safaricom. He has worked NOWHERE else and is not well informed as he might want you to believe. He is not even aware of what technically happens when Safaricom say they have deployed a…

Looks like Uhuru Kenyatta has recruited bloggers to do for him the dirty online propaganda work. Some of the bloggers running propaganda for Uhuru are Dennis Itumbi (both on personal blog and Daily Post), Bogonko Bosire (Jackal News and Daily Post), Samuel Majani (Ghafla) among others. I don’t really have a problem with politicians recruiting bloggers but I have a problem on what they do with that opportunity. No politician will ever recruit me to do for him/her dirty work. I just won’t do it. It is not my nature. I like speaking my mind so even joining a cause…

There is a lady who appeared on the Tujuane show which airs in Friday on KTN. The lady is named Susan on the episode. Tujuane (let’s know each other) is a dating show. The lady appeared as a date to a “George”. Susan claim that she is from the more affluent part of Nairobi while George is from Eastlands part of Nairobi. httpv://youtu.be/ow0IA98ldXc But Susan does not convince even the more affluent Nairobians that she is one of them. She comes out as overbearing, condescending  arrogant, ignorant and cheap all wrapped in one. She calls George cheap, pathetic among other negative adjectives. Kenyans…

So Google decided to claim attention from Kenyans by actually doing nothing apart from aggregating Google+, YouTube and Google News links from Kenyan media into one page. There is nothing much to boast of from what Google is offering. It is still mainly the usual shallow Google News offerings. I say “shallow” because news delivery has gone beyond few mainstream media houses in Africa. Blogs and other social media platforms are now more reliable than many of our mainstream media channels. So some innovative young Kenyan minds have launched Election Kenya. The platform is a crowd-sourced web-based content app delivering news not only…

According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017, in the Middle East and Africa (MEA), there will be 849,226,090 mobile users in 2017. The expected steady increase in mobile traffic is partly due to continued strong growth in the number of mobile Internet connections (personal devices and machine-to-machine applications), which will exceed the world’s population (United Nations estimates 7.6 billion) by 2017: 2017 VNI MEA Highlights: In Middle East and Africa, mobile data traffic will grow 17-fold from 2012 to 2017, a compound annual growth rate of 77%. In Middle East and Africa, mobile data traffic…

Two Chinese firms, ZTE and Huawei, are currently embroiled in a serious fight for tenders in Kenya. The two companies which have also been fighting each other in South Africa, are fighting to win the Kenyan government’s  multi-billion shilling National Surveillance, Communication, Command and Control systems tender that was recently cancelled by Head of Public Service Francis Kimemia. Now ZTE wants to institute contempt of court and defamation charges against the Civil service boss. Kimemia cancelled the tender over graft and exaggerated costs claims. Huawei went to court claiming that it quoted a fee which is Ksh 8 billion lower…

The White House yesterday announced a new initiative to fight the theft of Intellectual Property (IP) in the US. The new initiative has been created in coordination law enforcement agencies in US including the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, and State. The initiative which has been detailed in a 141-page document, focuses primarily on 5 action points; Diplomatic efforts Cooperation with private industry Enhanced law enforcement operations and legislation Public outreach The White House has promised that the Obama administration “will continue to act vigorously to combat the theft of American trade secrets that could be used by foreign companies or…

  Ericsson has provided the network infrastructure and services to bring voice and data communications to the Millennium Village Project (MVP) in Koraro located in a remote part of northern Ethiopia. With access to 3G connectivity more than 4,000 students and their teachers at two schools involved in the Connect To Learn initiative will now have access to modern learning and teaching resources through Ericsson’s cloud-computing solution. In addition, community health workers in the Millennium Villages will be using mobile phones provided by Sony Mobile and broadband access provided by Ericsson to deliver life-saving health care services directly to households…

Jimmy Kimmel is an American TV host. He did a show where he had Kenyans in Kenya read tweets from American celebrities. Kenyans, especially those on Twitter, were so angered with Jimmy for claiming that Kenyans do not have access to the internet. So some Kenyans in the USA flew to Las Vegas and had Americans read tweets from Kenyan celebrities. Watch below; httpv://youtu.be/1vBzqwT_xBk Funny. Isn’t it? Leave your comments below.

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