Who is LYING? Between the MoFA, IEBC and the Indian Company

The Kenyan DAILY POSTNews04:59

Friday, the 27^th of July 2012 - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reacted angrily to claims by an Indian I.T company that its officials asked for bribes in exchange for a favourable review of its ability to be in the running for a BVR tender that was being put up by the Independent Elections and Boundaries Commission.

The Indian 4G company had on Tuesday sent a complaint letter through its chairman and CEO Sreeni Tripuraneni detailing how some officials from the foreign affairs ministry had asked the company for a bribe of KSH 30 million in order to get a favorable review;

"We would like to bring to your attention that on various occasions, we received telephone calls from the people in Kenya High Commission in India and Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nairobi telling us that we needed to pay money to enable them to write a positive letter to IEBC."

"Having failed on the numerous requests, a certain XXXX who claims to work in the Indian High Commission in Nairobi approached our local partner demanding 30 million shillings on behalf of the officers to enable then write a favourable letter to IEBC,” read the letter.

But in the statement just released, Foreign Affairs PS Thuita Mwangi has refuted G4’s allegations claiming that the ministry did everything above board;

“The due diligence report was based on factual information given by the Government of India and was not a fabrication of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," read the statement.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not recommend that G4 be disqualified. All it did was proffer advice as indeed requested and required based purely on its findings. The IEBC was at liberty to make its own decisions with or without taking into consideration the advice contained in MFA’s due diligence report," said Mwangi.

The PS is also worried about the recent trend in which official communications have been finding themselves in the hands of the media, saying the ministry" takes great exception to the fact that confidential communication has routinely been leaked to the media by misguided elements for what can only be termed as wicked intent."

The Kenya DAILY POST