I have always wondered why we as ICT practitioners never make it to the C-Suites from your answer it is now clear it is because we assume that IT is a separate animal from the rest of the organisation yet this cannot be any further from the truth.

As you might know I write for the the CIO magazine, but do I say, and over the years my articles have tried to understand why we do not have CIOs (chief information officer) in organisations but more IT managers masquerading as CIOs which explains why over the past few years many organisations have scraped the position and relegated the department to a section within either finance or operations.  ICT is at the core of any modern business therefore we cannot pass the buck on the IEBC issue  with frivolous statements as that is was an operations issue.  

I raised this issue over 3 weeks ago but as is normally the case on most forums the village madman was written off and instead the issue has been regurgitated as if it was a new by the milliard of undertakers, tech has failed the Nation all because we think that technology is about buildings and grasslands. 

The issue of the system failing when it was being tested a week before the elections was highlighted in the print media but since we did not see the same on social media the issue was deemed irrelevant.  Dr. Ndemo, Mr. Kukubo and the rest of the ilk never raised an issue but instead retracted into their cocoons to come back after the fiasco to carry out a postmortem.

To avoid being treated as an outcast let me also regurgitated an old issue, we are a lose collection of social media noise makers with no platform to stand on, the only person with the mandate to castigate the IEBC is Dr. Waudo of the Computer Society of Kenya or maybe also Mr. Mutoro of COFEK as they lead formally constituted organisations, the rest of you are no different from me, village mad people.

On a lighter note: 

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Regards

PS.  IEBC said they will give us provisional results at least 48 hours after the closing of the last polling station which was at 9 pm on the 4th of March do the math, the constitution allows them 7 days within which to make the final results available so lets stop creating a mountain out of a skin mole.