KSH. 30 BILLION SAFARICOM CCTV SCANDAL EXPOSED #safaricomgatescandal

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In November 2014, Safaricom Ltd won the Sh 30 billion 4 year deal that will see an establishment of a National Surveillance, Communication and Control System for Nairobi and Mombasa.

The project was also supposed to install surveillance cameras in the two cities to provide real-time footage to the National Police Operations Command Centre. 

The work was done and the Camera's flash each time we drive past them But so far the cameras are not working – The project is now like a white elephant siphoning taxpayers’ money. 

In a series of 3 articles we are going to analyse the safaricom gate scandal from scratch to how it came to be.

In 2001, Tetra Radio Company bid for a $5.2 million (Sh447 million at current exchange rates) contract to operate and supply a digital radio communication system for the Kenya Police.

The company won the bid in 2002 to supply a commercial trunk radio network, which would operate on the UHF band.

Five years later, the system was yet to be supplied following wrangles between Tetra Radio and the Communications Commission of Kenya (now the Communications Authority of Kenya, CAK), prompting the regulator to cancel the tender in 2007.

Tetra Radio went to the High Court the following year to have CAK reinstate the tender and stop the regulator from allocating the frequencies to another entity.

The company won the case, and by a judgment dated June 24, 2011, CAK’s decision to cancel the tender was reversed and the regulator was prohibited from utilising, activating or allocating the frequency range

awarded to Tetra Radio.

CAK Director General Francis Wangusi wouldn't keep quiet he made media reports and even presented his report to parliament accounting that Tetra Radio was incapable of implementing the security system due to lack of proper technical and financial support. A company that operates with close to 45 million pounds (equivalent to 6.75B ksh.) and that had a good reputation in Spain, Austria, The United Kingdom, Iraq, Poland among others was incapable of setting up security systems in Kenya? Isn't this ironical?

After Tetra was successfully eliminated new players came into the game.

Huawei, ZTE and Safaricom were determined to win the security surveillance system. It was a battle that saw this three giant electronic and communication companies mire in controversy and morphed to feature bitter corprate and diplomacy wars that ended in court.

Huawei who were so much determined to hit the contract would do anything to get it and it is at this point that they arranged for ZTE managers to be deported back to their country being conscious of the fact that Safaricom was incapable of providing security and communication surveillance on their own. This was made possible through Office of the President and the Artoney General Githu Muigai . The deportation orders were signed by the then Interior C.S Joseph ole Lenku and ZTE was seen out of the competition. 

After the court ruling, Safaricom won the tender to supply, manage install and maintain security surveillance and communication systems.

Safaricom then in June 2014 confirmed that Chinese giant telecom Huawei would provide infrastructure  support for 15 billion. In his statement to the parliament's departmental committee on administration and national security, which was closed to the press for matters best known to him, the CEO Safaricom Bob Colymore claimed to set the records straight on why the tender was single sourced and awarded in a short time but since then no one ever questioned the involvement of Huawei on a contract that they failed to nail out of lack proven track to excute such a project.

In his testimony, which was closed to members of the Press, Mr Collymore sought to set the record straight on why the tender was single sourced and awarded in such a short time.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000125287/safaricom-reveals-huawei-involvement-in-cctv-tender

confirmed that Chinese giant telcom Huawei will be providing infrastructure support for the Sh14.9 billion security tender it was awarded last month.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000125287/safaricom-reveals-huawei-involvement-in-cctv-tender

Safaricom has confirmed that Chinese giant telcom Huawei will be providing infrastructure support for the Sh14.9 billion security tender it was awarded last month.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000125287/safaricom-reveals-huawei-involvement-in-cctv-tender

Safaricom has confirmed that Chinese giant telcom Huawei will be providing infrastructure support for the Sh14.9 billion security tender it was awarded last month.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000125287/safaricom-reveals-huawei-involvement-in-cctv-tender

The government through Huawei ,having eliminated ZTE, was aware that Safaricom was desperate to acquire first mover in the new 4G internet network and in collaboration with the office of the president and C.A.K having helped them rip off a previous contract from Tetra Radio Company, were able to get that which was not possible to get under Tetra's contract 30 billion shillings taxpayers money.

This whole security and CCTV thing was something that was planned way back and senior people with influence saw it go through to derive Kenyans a total sum of 30billion  a false project that Huawei carried out with a total of 15 billion Ksh., was bagged up with 45 billion Ksh. which leaves an extra 30 billion that was pocketed with few individual who fixed and so the whole project go their way.

Out of Kenyans quest for a well managed and equippednational digital  security system, #safaricomgatescandal was conceived and delivered and as Kenyans cry for justice some few individual are merely dancing with their pockets swollen and over flowing with poor taxpayers money. But the big question is who are the culprits of this outrageous broad daylight theft? We will answer this and the roles they played in the next article of the #safaricomgatescandal. 

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