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IEBC on the spot over new deal for French digital firm
Wednesday January 06 2021
By DAVID MWERE
Summary
Pressure to have the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) cut business links with French technology firm Idemia Identity and Securities Limited has intensified.
The company was in 2016 awarded a five-year contract to maintain IEBC’s Kenya Integrated Election Management System (Kiems) that hosts the register of voters.
The contract is set to end this month with the commission now pushing to have it renewed.
Pressure to have the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) cut business links with French technology firm Idemia Identity and Securities Limited has intensified just days after it emerged that the commission was pushing to have the firm’s contract renewed ahead of the 2022 General Election.
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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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