How ‘fake’ experts triggered World Bank blacklist of e-Citizen firm

Webmasters Chief Executive Officer of Webmasters James Ayugi. The World Bank’s Sanctions Board has found the company and Mr Ayugi liable for fraudulent and obstructive practices.

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Webmasters Kenya Limited, the firm behind the eCitizen platform, has been blacklisted from World Bank-funded projects for five years after it listed two individuals as 'experts' in a tender bid document for a project in Somalia financed by the multilateral lender.

The 'experts', however, later told investigators they had been listed by Webmasters for the job without their knowledge, sparking the debarment from World Bank projects.

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