Raila Calls for Probe into British Data Mining Firm Cambridge Analytica's Role in Kenya's Elections

Opposition leader Raila Odinga has called for investigations into the role of British data mining firm Cambridge Analytica (CA), in Kenya's presidential elections in 2013 and 2017.

The National Super Alliance (Nasa) chief believes that the company's servers could contain prove of a compromised Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).

"Maybe the records will be found in Cambridge Analytica’s servers. We also know that the firm was responsible for dirty election campaign propaganda depicting me as an anarchist who would make Kenya hell on earth. These matters should be investigated not just in Europe, but also in Kenya," Raila told The Nation.

Odinga said that Cambridge's recent admission of having influenced Kenyan presidential polls, confirmed their previous claims of massive manipulation of elections results.

"What is coming out in the open are the things we’ve brought out in the past. We were dismissed and accused of making them up," Raila stated during an interview with Daily Nation's Macharia Gaitho.

"In 2013, we went to the Supreme Court with evidence of massive manipulation of election results, but our affidavits were thrown out on a technicality, being out of time, and expunged from the records. In 2017, we brought up a similar issue of algorithms introduced to produce the desired election results, but the electoral agency defied the Supreme Court’s orders to open their servers."

Odinga further said he had not shelved his push for electoral reforms despite entering into a unity pact with President Kenyatta.