[Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore. His company has been accused of not delivering on its mandate.] (Photo/NairobiWIre)
The Communications Authority of Kenya, through its Director General Francis Wangusi wants Raila Odinga to stop attacking Safaricom.
In a statement to the media on Wednesday, Wangusi has urged the NASA team to report their case to the police and not attacking it in the media.
According to Wangusi, their (NASA) claims are damaging the efforts made by the government in the ICT sector.
“ICTs have been successfully deployed and embraced in all facets of life in the country, including banking, business, education, health, agriculture and government services just but to mention a few. Elections are no exception and the Authority is confident that ICTs can be deployed successfully to support this important national activity,” he said as quoted by the Nation.
This comes after NASA, led by Raila Odinga, claimed that the giant mobile company did not relay results from the polling stations to the IEBC portal as agreed.
“Consequently, results from the polling station KIEMS kits left the country but never found their way back to IEBC. None of the kits under Safaricom’s network ever got their results onto the IEBC’s public web portal,” Raila said.
However, Safaricom, through its CEO Bob Collymore has defended itself, saying they delivered on their mandate and sent results to the electoral body’s portal.