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IEBC bought sim cards at highly inflated price

Wafula Chebukati

The electoral agency bought phone sim cards at three times the market price for last year’s elections, MPs were told on Thursday.
An ordinary card was bought at Sh173 instead of the normal retail price of Sh50, members of the National Assembly Public Accounts Committee heard, prompting Molo MP Kuria Kimani to ask: "What kind of sim cards did you buy because we also use sim cards and they don’t cost Sh173?"
He added that the commission should have obtained them at a cheaper price because it was buying in bulk.
Suna East MP Junet Mohamed asked: “Were these special sim cards and not the normal ones that we know and who ordered them?”
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Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi demanded an explanation from the commission's ICT director, Mr James Muhati, on how the decision to buy the cards at such an inflated price was made and whether he actually saw them.

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