Before World Bank cut ties with Webmasters for listing “fake” experts for a project in Somalia, the company and its founder, James Ayugi, had already hit the headlines for the wrong reasons back home.
Mr Ayugi and Webmasters, the company behind the eCitizen platform, were recently banned from World Bank-funded projects for five years, adding to the controversies that have dogged the techpreneur since he built the expansive digital platform in 2013.