Op woensdag 15 augustus 2012 14:43:37 UTC+2 schreef Yhombi het volgende:
> PRESS STATEMENT
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> The
> acquisition of the BVR kits should not become another Anglo-Leasing Scandal
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> First of all we demand categorically that that Kenya
> must adopt the Biometric Voter Registration system for the March 4, 2013,
> general elections. We also demand that the elections must be held no later than
> March 4, 2013.
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> However, we are dismayed by reports that the
> Government wants to contract Code Inc. of Canada to supply the BVR solution for
> Kenya. Code Inc. was one of the 29 firms that bid for the IEBC's recently
> cancelled BVR Kits Tender. Code did not make it to the shortlist because it was
> disqualified at the outset for presenting a defective Bankers Bid Bond.
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> Reliable sources within the IEBC have informed us
> that the Tender specifications were very much tailored to fit Code Inc, because
> the firm had carried out a small pilot BVR project for the IIEC. From the word
> go, IEBC wanted Code Inc. To win this tender.
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> The same sources informed us that BVR bid evaluation
> process was continually interfered with by Code Inc. which enjoys cordial
> relations with persons at the highest level within IEBC, who repirtedly receive
> monthly stipends from Code Inc. Indeed, the former IIEC Commissioner David
> Chirchir is the local representative for Code Inc.
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> For example, in widely circulated hacked email
> correspondence with a Mr. Rajender Sachdeva of Symphony, a Mr. Gordon Sinclair
> of Code Inc. claims to have great influence throughout the IEBC, including
> having very special relationship with the Chairman, Mr. Ahmed Issack Hassan! In
> one of the emails, Mr. Gordon Sinclair says, "I can say that my priority
> at this point is to do the best to help out my good friend Hassan pull the
> rabbit out of the hat."
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> Further to the above, we want the Government and the
> IEBC to tell Kenyans why they are keen to conduct business with a company with
> the following hanging over its head:
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> (i)
> There are reports to the effect
> that Code Inc. is blacklisted in Fiji for, among other reasons, being a
> security risk because it was to share the biometrics information of Fijians
> with Western intelligence agencies. In fact, there are claims that Code Inc. is
> actually owned by the Canadian Intelligence Services (CIS) and that the
> Management of Code Inc. are all operatives of CIS. The Canadian CIS is the equivalent
> of the CIA of the United States of America.
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> (ii)
> The company was recently
> deregistered in Canada. On 21st June, 2012, Code Inc. went into voluntary
> liquidation and. the firm of Ernest & Young, Auditors was appointed as
> Liquidators. Therefore, from 21st June, 2012, Code Inc. ceased to conduct
> business, since it was liquidated. That Code Inc. was put into voluntary
> liquidation because of the Fiji experience had exposed its true identity as a
> foreign intelligence agency. Hence, the liquidation was nothing more than a
> cosmetic rebranding of Code Inc. into a new outfit called Electoral Services
> International. This new Company is only a few weeks old, but its
> under the same ownership
> and management.
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> It is also equally disturbing that the Treasury,
> which is conducting the single sourcing, christened Government-to-Government
> procurement (yet no Government in the world manufactures the BVR kits), has not
> disclosed the price of the kits. To make matters worse, there is talk of
> getting a foreign loan worth billions of shillings to finance the purchase the
> BVR kits yet Parliament allocated the IEBC billions of shillings in the last
> budget for the acquisition of the kits, which money was the basis of their
> cancelled tender.
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> Where have the billions gone so that Kenyans are
> forced to pay twice for the same? Are the IEBC and the Treasury setting us up
> for another scandal of looting public coffers that will make the Anglo Leasing
> one look like a joke.
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> Further, other than the safety of the biometric data
> of Kenyan citizens, there is the question of time. Code Inc. does not
> manufacture BVR kits; they are simply middlemen who have to source them from
> manufactures. This makes us wonder why, with the very limited time left, why is
> the Government not approaching a consortium of manufacturers to quickly
> manufacture and supply the kits so that they can be used in time for the March
> 4, 2013, elections?
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> Our very strong recommendation is that the Government
> should source the BVR kits directly from a consortium several manufacturers so
> that the same can be supplied quickly so as to eliminate the possibility of creating
> an excuse to delay the elections.
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> Strangely, the tender for Poll Books has also not
> been awarded. Is the IEBC planning to create another crisis that will lead to
> the cancellation of this tender too, so as to generate a situation where this
> Poll Book tender procurement also is single sourced to Code Inc.?
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> What is being
> witnessed is reminiscent of events that disgraced the former electoral body,
> the ECK, to a point that Kenyans resorted to the 2007/8 existential
> postelection violence.
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> Hence, the IEBC
> must not gamble with public confidence. The IEBC must style up. The process of
> acquiring a BVR solution for Kenya must be efficient, transparent and
> accountable to the point where the Kenyan on the street will have no doubts
> that the commission hasd put in place a process to deliver credible elections
> on March 4, 2013. And we reiterate our suggestion that the Government/IEBC stop
> dealing with middlemen and proceeds to procure the BVR kits directly from a
> consortium of companies that manufacture them.
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> We call on
> Kenyans to be vigilant and spare nothing in ensuring that IEBC holds a transparent
> process. We shall not be held back from street protests, including occupation of
> offices, as well as seeking judicial action if they do not listen to us.
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> Signed:
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> For Civil
> Society Groups:
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> Okiya Omtatah
> Okoiti - 0722684-777 Date:
> Wednesday, August 15, 2012.
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> Executive
> Director
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> Kenyans for
> Justice and Development (KEJUDE) Trust
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