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Safaricom responds after Raila Odinga drags them to poll dispute

On Tuesday 26 September, National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga linked Kenya's leading telecommunication firm, Safaricom into August 8 election rigging.

Raila said that Safaricom was contracted by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to transmit election results from the polling stations to a server in France instead of transmitting them to Kenya Integrated Electoral Management Systems (KIEMS) kits.

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