Davis Chirchir, Dennis Itumbi deny leading 56 hackers as alleged by Raila Odinga

Dennis Itumbi (in yellow) when he accompanied President-elect William Ruto at Serena Hotel for KTN's Town hall meeting on July 7, 2022. [Samson Wire, Standard]

Two of President-elect William Ruto's loyalists have denied allegations that they breached the IEBC systems and facilitated the manipulation of the August 9 presidential results through an elaborate hacking system that included foreign actors.

Davis Chirchir, the Chief of Staff in the Office of the Deputy President, and Dennis Itumbi, a digital strategist, further deny that they led a team of 56 hackers who were involved in a "large scale, well-orchestrated fraudulent scheme" that enabled them to interfere and compromise the IEBC electoral data transmission systems and manipulate the results in favour of Ruto.

In their separate replying affidavits to the presidential petition filed by Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition presidential candidate Raila Odinga, which were filed in court on Friday, each of them say that claims there was a team of 56 people based in Karen to manipulate the results are false.