UHURU or RAILA ….. Expect the full of Presidential RESULTS on Friday - IEBC

With the anxiety of Kenyans slowly building up with each day that passes without the country not knowing who won last Monday’s Presidential election, IEBC Chairman Isaack Hassan today said that the commission was working to ensure that it can make the ‘big announcement’ on Friday morning.

Again reiterating that the constitution gives the commission seven days in which to ascertain the winner of the Presidential election, Hassan said that the IEBC understands the impatience of Kenyans and would try and release the final results on Friday;

“We want to be realistic with all of you. Some officers are being airlifted to Nairobi. Early in the morning on Friday, we should announce the official results,” he said.

Hassan also exonerated mobile service provider Safaricom from any blame with regards to the failure of its electronic transmission system.

Hassan said that the failure should be blamed wholly on inadequate training and the fact that some of the phones were wrongly configured.

“It has nothing to do with Safaricom. Safaricom has been a very valuable partner. They supplied us with the Virtual Private Network and the SIM cards- of course we paid for these- and we are very grateful,” he said.

Hassan also said that the IEBC’s tallying process had not been compromised by the collapse of the electronic transmission system;

“That we have abandoned the Electronic Voter Transmission does not in any way mean that the vote tallying has been compromised. Electronic Tallying was never supposed to replace the manner of tallying and declaring results.”