Symphony: We have no political connection
Symphony, the company at the centre of the biometric voter registration tender controversy yesterday denied that it is owned by politically connected individuals. The company said no politically connected person has shares in it. It listed Horatius Da Gama Rose as holding 1 share while Horatius Da Gama Rose and Fernanda Da Gama Rose jointly hold 19,999 shares. “No other shareholders, no politically linked person or entity has any share holding in the company, as is being circulated in the media,” said the company in a statement yesterday.
The correct name of the company is Symphony, which is the business name of System Integration Limited (registered under the certificate number 309167 by the Registrar of Companies). The company said neither Symphony nor any of its associate companies have ever been black-listed or banned from doing business with any government. “There may be a mix-up with Computer Applications Limited, which was also never black-listed by Parliament as claimed in the media,” said the company. “It appears that there have been motivated reports bent on publishing libelous articles, manufacturing sensational untruths obviously being used by various competitors for personal gain,” said the company.
Symphony was on the verge of taking the contract to supply biometric voter registration kits for the next election at a cost of Sh3.9 billion. This was after the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission said it had decided not to award the tender to 4G Identity Solution Pvt Limited which was the lowest evaluated bidder. IEBC has since abandoned BVR and reverted to manual registration of voters after the original tender was hit by myriad of controversies including boardroom wars at the commission.
Symphony said it made the BVR bid in a consortium association with the world’s leading biometric solution providers, M/S Dermalog Identification Systems GmbH of Germany. It said Dermalog has over the last 2 decades completed 71 projects related to Biometric ID and Citizen/Voter Registration in over 40 countries, including several in Africa.
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