Appearing before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on
Justice and Legal Affairs for a post-budget consultation meeting, Zec chief
elections officer Utoile Silaigwana said: “The Pachedu group has not been able
to break into our system, but they have made several attempts.
“They have maliciously spread a lot of disinformation,
misinformation and malformation about the commission, which then in the public
eye looks like Zec is highly, highly vulnerable and they have broken into, but
they have not.
“I think it is some kind of silly manoeuvres to try to
destabilise Zec. The purpose of the commission reporting them is that this is
an attempt. If someone attempts to rape, it is an offence, right? So they are
attempting to rape Zec and this is why we reported them.
“There have been about 100 attempts to hack into our
server, which hosts the voters roll, but they have never broken into it. Our
website system is separate from the system that hosts the voters roll.”
The commission on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint
against Team Pachedu at Harare Central Police Station under IR111760 accusing
the group of hacktivism, impersonation, unauthorised data mining and
cyberterrorism.
Pachedu has exposed a number of anomalies in the voters
roll.
Silaigwana said the 2023 budget allocation for Zec was 33%
lower than their initial $151,2 billion bid. Newsday
0 comments:
Post a Comment