Pressure to have the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) cut business links with French technology firm Idemia Identity and Securities Limited has intensified just days after it emerged that the commission was pushing to have the firm’s contract renewed ahead of the 2022 General Election.
The company was in 2016 awarded a five-year contract to maintain IEBC’s Kenya Integrated Election Management System (Kiems) that hosts the register of voters. The contract is set to end this month with the commission now pushing to have it renewed.
