Lawyer Willis Otieno, who is representing the fourth petitioner in the 2022 presidential election petition, yet again cracked ribs in Supreme Court court during his submissions.
This is after he compared Venezuelan Jose Camargo to a sexual offender while making a comment on the legal question of how integral technology was during the general elections.
“We were told Camargo is like a plumber maintaining the system. Once a plumber has fixed your bathroom, when you are showering if you find him you tell him “get behind me satan” … A plumber who is in your bathroom when you are showering is a sexual offender,” Otieno said, prompting CJ Martha Koome to intervene asking him to stick to the law.
While responding to the issue of Venezuelans being granted access to IEBC systems, the commission’s advocate Eric Gumbo noted that the foreigners had access to the systems for maintenance purposes. He further noted that all of them were logged out of the system before election day.
“There is the heavy weather that was made about the Venezuelans, a specific name has been dropped of one Gaetano Omar. My ladies and my lords, the contract between Smartmatic and IEBC was for the supply and maintenance of the infrastructure that they had. It then meant that they had to bring in their personnel to manage or monitor the smooth running of that system,” Gumbo said in court on Thursday.
Doubts about his statement have arisen when a form 34A presented in court bore the name of Camargo.
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