THE STANDARD By
Jacob Ng etich |
December 28th 2020 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
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Questions are being raised on those behind the push to have a company that was condemned over supply of election equipment to the electoral agency, get more deals worth billions of shillings.
Already, there is a push to have Idemia, a controversial French firm, to get more deals and specifically to supply technology platform to run the coming constitutional review referendum and the 2022 General Election.
The company, which was formerly known as Safran Morpho Limited and later OT-Morpho, supplied election equipment of the controversial 2017 presidential election that was nullified by the Supreme Court.
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Firm Behind Controversial Election Recruited for BBI Referendum.
Then OT-MORPHO now IDEMIA
Idemia, the french IT firm that supplied biometric registration kits to IEBC for the 2017 General Election is on the verge of landing another huge government contract for the supply of a technology platform for the upcoming BBI referendum and the eventual 2022 General Election.
The fresh tender is valued at around Ksh10 billion according to
the Nation.
The information was contained in a brief by Treasury Cabinet Secretary, Ukur Yatani, confirming Idemia’s involvement in the upcoming referendum.
IEBC had asked for clarification on the company s involvement following a ban imposed by Parliament and later lifted by the High Court.
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