- A Kenyan and a Russian could be planning to hack into the IEBC system to interfere with the elections

- Police have arrested the Kenyan who is also a former DCI police officer and IT expert following communication between him and the Russian

Police have foiled a plan by a Kenyan aided by a Russian to hack into the electoral commission system and interfere with the August 8 elections.

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This follows that arrest of a former police officer who is also touted as an IT guru and a hacker who has been stealing money from local banks electronically in conjunction with a ring of other international hackers.

A police report says the suspect who is in police custody Calvon Otieno Ogalo and a Russian were possibly planning to hack into the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) to alter the results of the poll.

The report which has been quoted by the Nation also says Ogalo who is also wanted for having stolen KSh 50 million from the Kenya Police Sacco is suspected to have hacked into the electoral system during the 2013 election including the Kencall servers which were relaying the results.

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"There are fears that Ogalo and his network might be targeting the IEBC in the coming August 2017 elections after a Russian male joined the network," Nation quotes the police report.

Russians are known to be notorious hackers and they has been controversy in the United States of America after reports that they hacked the US elections in favour of President Donald Trunp during the 2016 poll. The assertion has been denied.

Ogalo is a former DCI officer and bank employee who is said to have been siphoning millions from banks and other companies by hacking into their systems aided by insiders.

The suspect is said to have been in communication with the son and daughter of a prominent politician in the country.

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TUKO has also learnt that the man has been arrested several times in the past but has always been bailed out by at least two prominent politicians.

Further, in 2013, he approached a prominent politician with a proposal that he could hack into the IEBC and rig the election for him but the said figure turned down the offer.

The August 2017 election in Kenya is a hotly contested one and politicians are fighting tooth and nail to emerge victorious and the latest IEBC hacking reports will definitely raise eye brows.

Already, the Opposition has cried foul saying there is a scheme to rig the election in favour of the government adding it would not accept results of a stolen poll. The government has denied such claims.

Video of how hacking is done.