Did someone use the name of Spacenet Inc., a global player in the VSAT industry, to obtain contracts by deception from the Government of Kenya?

In this affair, the Ministry of Transport & Communications wanted to use 980 Post Offices to roll out Internet services for the Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK), via a scheme called ‘Posta Surf’. On 19th June 2002, then Minister for Transport & Communications Musalia Mudavadi wrote a project justification letter to the Minister for Finance, Chris Obure. In the letter he sought exemption for the PCK from the Audit & Exchequer Public Procurement Regulations 2001 and permission for the PCK to engage in a direct procurement.

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